It’s always nice when you wake in Tokyo, have your cereal, and do a quick scan of the newspapers to find out what’s happening, and there on front page of The Guardian website is a photograph you shot on assignment in 1998…
1998, Glasgow, Scotland, Tony Blair goes to (if i remember correctly) a new restaurant [...]
Out on photographic assignments here in Tokyo, Japan, people often ask me where I come from, and usually they know one of three things about my home country of Scotland – whisky, golf and football. And with the football they usually only know of Celtic FC because of Japanese player Shinsuke Nakamura and his time [...]
As newspapers the world over struggle and close down, it’s refreshing to write of a new one starting up in Scotland- The Caledonian Mercury, named after The Mercurius Caledonius which was Scotland’s first print newspaper, founded in 1660 by Thomas Sydserf. We wish it well.
N is for North Sea…. ( Written for M.C.)
North Sea. 5.30am or so. I’m sitting in an inflatable, bobbing about on the waves, up, down, up, down. It’s f*ckin’ cold. I’m half way between Scotland and Norway, or somewhere like that. Me and RP are zooming about and I’m trying to shoot, or waiting on [...]
If you’ve been wondering what the latest news is re the stalled proposals for the grand Scottish National Photography Centre project in Edinburgh then you can listen to this BBC news radio report, as it is dicussed. Albert Watson chips in via phone from NY. (The report if the first one after the weather, right [...]
J is for Jura, in Scotland.
It all started with a phone call, as it so often does, “Can you go to Jura and photograph a deer stalker?” said the picture editor. And off I went. Up the A82, away to the ferry, across to Islay, drive across Islay and down to the wee ferry that [...]
Over here in TokyoLand we like a night of footie occasionally. And tonight is no exception. Tonight it doesn’t come much bigger, unless of course it was Scotland V France, at Hampden, in a World Cup final, Scotland win 3-1, … which happened in my dream a few nights ago….don’t laugh, it could happen.
Tonight, or [...]
Just to post some more information on the photographic work included in the ‘25 Years of Photography, Celebrating the Anniversay of the National Collection‘ exhibition (snappy title huh ?).
14 February – 19 April 2009
NATIONAL GALLERY COMPLEX, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
Telephone 0131 6246 6200; recorded information 0131 332 2266
www.nationalgalleries.org
Admission free
The enormous contribution of [...]
