Sixteen was a multiple award-winning group photography project conceived and led by Craig Easton in which he invited fifteen leading contemporary photographers* to join him and collaborate with sixteen-year-olds from all around the UK. Young people from all different social backgrounds and locations were invited to respond to questions about what it means to be sixteen in the UK today. The work challenges the notion of meritocracy and examines how social background, ethnicity, gender, location, education, health etc all influence what young people think they can achieve in life.

The contributions from Scotland were made by Craig (in the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland) and by Sophie Gerrard on the mainland (with one picture each made in Glasgow and Braco by Linda Brownlee and Stuart Freedman)

The work was shown in 20 exhibitions both in gallery settings and outdoors in the public realm from Shetland to Cornwall and Belfast to London throughout 2019/2020

*Photographers were: Craig Easton, Sophie Gerrard, Lottie Davies, Simon Roberts, Linda Brownlee, Jillian Edelstein, Kate Peters, Christopher Nunn, Kalpesh Lathigra, Abbie Trayler-Smith, Michelle Sank, Roy Mehta, Stuart Freedman, David Copeland, Robert Brady,

Media

Behind-the-scenes film by Robert Brady, Isle of Scalpay

Photography on Screen film by Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow