Multimedia

Since finishing my MA I now specialise in multimedia productions: using photography, audio and video to create short documentary films.

Red Road Underground

Piece by piece, the looming, steel skinned concrete towers of Glasgow’s Red Road flats are coming down. In 1971 over 4,000 people lived in blocks that soared 30 stories into the sky. Forty years on, the scheme is dilapidated, its population depleted by about three quarters. A walk between the towers today, takes you across a desolate, lunar landscape of deserted swing-parks and crumbling shops. Underground lies the remanants of a 1000 seater bingo hall and themed bar that closed in the 1990′s. This short documentary film using photographs and audio takes Red Road residents back to the days, evenings and weekends spent underground at the Mecca Bingo and The Brig bar.

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55 & 75 Plean St

I was commissioned by the demolition company to shoot a make shift timelapse of both buildings coming down by a large grinding machine, which slowly tears down the buildings over 4 months. And whilst shooting this I found I had a free run of the empty flats. I then tracked down 3 former residents of the flats to hear their stories about life in the flats, the good days, the experience moving in and the eventual demise of the flats. Everyone wanted these buildings demolished and the press claimed in their latter days they were rife with drug addicts and crime. A local petition was sent round demanding the flats be demolished and then the flats were finally emptied. All around though are high rise flats that seemed to have survived and even prospered, so what caused 55 & 75 Plean St to be so run down, filled with criminality and then demolished?

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The Gorbals – 1930 – 2011

I was commissioned to produce a short documentary on life in the Gorbals today and I managed to track down an old lady Rose White, who was 89 years old and had lived through the very timeframe I was documenting.  In the end, she got the starring role. But it was a tight schedule, 2.5 weeks for what should have been a 3 month project but it was a great challenge to research, stalk the streets of the Gorbals, print a selection of work and shoot, record interviews and edit to complete a short 7 minute film. I can only dream of what would have possible if I had more time.

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Sighthill Stories

Documents three double multi-storey high rise flats several months leading up to their demolition. I Interviewed former and present residents about their lifes in the flats and what they expected in the future for Sighthill after the flats were gone. I wanted to piece together some kind of historical documentation of the flats and the area before they disappeared forever.

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Memories: Oatlands

Documents one former resident who has been relocated to a new home. Torn between being happy and thankful for a new modern home but sensing the fading memories of a lost community, he raises questions about what happens to communities relocated and dispersed through regeneration.

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Paddy’s Market

A flea market and Glasgow institution going back over two hundred years was typecast an eyesore and not fit for a modern Glasgow. Masked as a regeneration project by Glasgow City Council (GCC) and supported by local media and misleading crime statistics, the market traders fought a hard battle to keep the market open and to save their livelihoods.

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