Nelson Mandela, Glasgow 1993.

I’m very pleased to let you know that the black and white images I took of Nelson Mandela, in Glasgow in 1993, when he came to here to receive the Freedom of the City (and which I’ve written about previously), have been published as a little book by the industrious Craig Atkinson at Café Royal Books. On […]

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Madiba

Congratulations is due to Scottish photographer Niall McDiarmid on having his soulful portrait of Nelson Mandela used in Time Magazine this week. In a week when there are many images of Madiba being published it is particularly pleasing to see this one used so well. Niall’s hugely popular Crossing Paths portraiture project is now out […]

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Nelson Mandela inside the City Chambers, George Square, Glasgow, Scotland, on 9th October 1993. Mandela was in Glasgow to receive the 'Freedom of the City' honour. ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 1993, all rights reserved.

Nelson Mandela, 1918 – 2013.

I remember where I was twenty three years ago, on Sunday, February 11th 1990. I remember it clearly. I was sitting in a  little blue Ford Fiesta car, for which I can still remember the registration number, my first car. I was stopped at traffic lights in Charing Cross, Glasgow, and the radio was on. […]

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