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Return to Sarajevo
This week (August 18th) I am returning to Sarajevo, Bosnia for the first time in 4 years. I have a long history and attachment with the city dating back to 1996 when I set up and ran photography projects for kids in the local orphanage. The project ran for 4 years and I returned every [...]
Read moreBalkan Archive Photography
Archive BW photography from lost negatives dated 1996 – 2001 I was sent some old photographs from a fellow photographer from Chicago – Pete Pawinski, who I worked with as a volunteer in Croatia way back in the Autumn and Winter of 1996. We were working on a social reconstruction project ran by a German [...]
Read moreRomania – 10 years on
Photographs from a week long shoot in Romania, exactly 10 years after my first visit in April 2001, documenting State Institutions and prevention and foster care services for children. My first time documenting Romania was 10 years ago in April 2001 visiting large state run institutions for children in Maramures County, in the north of [...]
Read moreJaconelli Eviction Dawn Raid
The eviction was supposed to happen last Thursday but it seemed the police were busy with another eviction in the West End of the city to deal ‘effectively’ with Margarets eviction. For days the media has hung around Ardenlea St waiting on an eviction that sometimes felt might not actually happen. The most excitement and [...]
Read moreJaconelli barricades home
I have just returned from a lock in at Margaret Jaconelli’s home in Dalmarnock- she and her family have been fighting a long battle for compensation for their home which is to be demolished to make way for the Commonwealth Games. It was a long tense day and a second eviction notice was served for [...]
Read moreWalkabout #2 – Red Road, North Glasgow
North Glasgow on a grey and cold February morning can paint a depressing picture at the best of times and jump off the beaten track, into the wee lanes and woodlands along the railway line and a whole new world appears. This was more of a ‘runabout’ than walkabout as I was out running and [...]
Read moreHaiti Earthquake – One year on
In January 2011, marking one year after the earthquake in Haiti I was asked by The Drouth magazine to write an article and submit photographs for their main feature. The Drouth is Scotland’s leading cultural quarterly. Publishing features and fiction and especially interested in literature, film and politics but also visual art, music, architecture, photography and [...]
Read moreWalkabout * 1
Christmas was kind of cancelled this year and the usual Christmas eve last minute buying stuff was replaced by a 3 hour walk from my house in Dennistoun, to Sighthill to Townhead, Charing Cross and then back home. It was one of those beautiful but bitterly cold blue sky days with sunshine and snow on [...]
Read moreFilming for CNN
Footage I filmed in Haiti was used for a special programme on CNN in August 2010. As part of their CNN Heroes programmes – they focused on Magnus MacFarlane Barrow, the chief and exec founder of the international charity, Mary’s Meals whom I accompanied in Haiti in July. Two films were produced using the footage [...]
Read moreHaiti – 6 months after the earthquake
View Gallery I have just returned from an assignment in Haiti documenting via film and photography the aftermath of the earthquake and the work of a small Scottish charity. It was my first time in Haiti and even after documenting the poverty of Africa and India, the situation in Haiti seemed even more desperate. When [...]
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