“In the summer of 2000 I became fascinated with the Common Ridings of the Scottish Borders area. In towns such as Langholm, Hawick and Selkirk, amongst others, the men (and some of it was controversially men only) take part in old customs such as catching sachets of tobacco snuff thrown from a tower at dawn. […]
Document Scotland are pleased to announce that they’ll be represented at this year’s Bursa Photo Festival, in Bursa, Turkey, from September 15th-21st. Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert will be present at the festival, the 2nd year of the Bursa festival, and will be exhibiting a selection of portraits shot during his long term project with the Roma of […]
“In the next few years Scotland will decide if it wants to be an independent country four hundred years after it last was a nation state. As a Scottish photographer I though it important that I should try and reflect on the seismic changes that are underway in Scotland’s national identity by travelling far and wide […]
“Driving down Victoria Road I would see the graffiti on the wall, GOVANHELL. I drove past it a few times before finally one day stopping, getting out and photographing it. And so began my wanderings and hanging out in Govanhill area of Glasgow’s South Side. Over a period of time I photographed within the community, […]
In all my years working as an editorial photographer in Scotland I always tried to stay away from shooting the obligatory football matches. It isn’t that I didn’t like football, or didn’t follow the results, just that I had no desire to sit and photograph football games on Saturday afternoons or on wet Wednesday nights. […]
I remember Dookits from my childhood very vividly. They always seemed to loom large in the eastend of Glasgow’s landscape when I visited my grandparents and seemed like wartime fortifications on embankments and desolate pieces of spare ground. I knew they were used by bird-fanciers but I didn’t want to think too much about what […]