Getting the light right in architectural photography
Here’s a selection of a few images taken in the last year. Natural light is what I want to highlight here, the importance of getting the light right to photograph a building and how it’s key in pretty much every photo I take. Photos show an image from a range of projects commissioned during 2019 ranging in scale from a small house extension in Dumfries & Galloway to the ‘Three Graces’ on Liverpools waterfront.
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‘Poverty Safari’. Cover image to Darren McGarvey’s thought provoking and urgent, Orwell Prize winning book
l was delighted to be asked to contribute an image to the cover of Darren MacGarvey’s debut book ‘Poverty Safari’. The book is published in November 2017 and tackles perhaps the most urgent issues facing the UK, – overcoming an invisible divide between poorer and more affluent communities, bringing marginalised and isolated voices into a dialogue for empowerment and change.
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#Postcards from the Old Victoria
Heres’s a few images from a recent commission by Sanctuary Housing Group to document elements of the sprawling, Old Victoria Hospital site as it finally closes a chapter on its life, prior to redevelopment and partial demolition. In someway the grandeur, character, and ambition for the hospital, its aspiration for the healthcare of the city’s people, epitomises […]
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Turner / Assemble / Baxendale & Tramway, Glasgow
The Turner Prize exhibition, brings a juggernaut of expectation, debate and ideas to the city’s art scene. An interesting and diverse line up of nominees, this write up focuses on the art of collaborative efforts to animate and confront under utilised and neglected urban space in rebuilding and creating new futures for a place.
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#Dear Green City Print
Lots has been happening since my last addition here and perhaps for more constant updates – take a look at my twitter or flickr posts. Generally I’ve been honing my techniques, process and image editing capabilities with some recent examples of my architecture photography commissions added under the architecture drop down menu
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Govan – ‘a reconnection’ photo story in Edge Condition magazine
Edge Condition Vol 5 published at the end of January included some of my Govan images in its placemaking edition. I have spent much time in the last few years involved with various initiatives in Govan that attempt to reinterpret Govan’s incredible past story, responding to the problems Govan has faced since deindustrialisation, with the loss of […]
