Stockingfield Junction in Glasgow’s Maryhill area is both striking and transformative in its design connecting active travel paths over the Forth and Clyde Canal, between the 3 areas on different sides of the canal – Maryhill, Gilsochill and Ruchill. Scottish Canals and Sustrans delivered the project with Balfour Beatty as contractor and engineering designer and…
Photography following the route of the Forth and Clyde Canal as it winds through Maryhill in Glasgow. This series of images goes back to an image titled ‘Another Day, Another Night’ taken in the woodside social club which was a finalist image winning the social documentary category of a photography competition run by Glasgow Institute…
It was good to do some photography for Urban Realm Magazine of the completed Govan / Partick bridge and have watched with interest as the structure has been engineered into position, and action. Building a bridge is undoubtedly a good thing for Govan and the wider city, offering connections, celebrating the waterfront with improved access…
A story of two sides here. Paisley seen through the lens photographed for a range of commissions between 2016 and 2022. The images here touch on the essence of the city’s architectural and cultural assets and the ability of strategic planning and cultural revival to reposition the town centre, post covid and (as in many…
Govan. Rich in significance and stories, Glasgow’s riverside community, has had two great eras in its history: At the heart of a Medieval Kingdom of Strathclyde, where its vital position on the banks of The Clyde provided a crossing point where the city’s earliest local industries and settlement were to develop; later to be a…
Built in the late 1960s, the optimism that heralded the new utopias and improved standard of living that these flats enabled, quickly evaporated. Their demise encapsulates the issues and problems surrounding high rise social housing more generally. Leaving a powerful imprint on the memory of the city, the last of the temporary inhabitants, were rehoused…
Working with progressive developer HUB, this was a photography assignment in support of a proposed ‘Build to Rent’ (BTR) development in vibrant Canonmills in the heart of Edinburgh, a short walk from Stockbridge and the city centre. With secure rental leases much sought after in Edinburgh the development offers apartments with creative studios, communal space,…
Following successive clearances of condemned high rise housing, a new urban area has reestablished itself at the heart of the area widely referred to as the Gorbals. The masterplan development led by Stallan-Brand has focused on integrating more traditional tenemental forms of housing within a vibrant and safe area; the new scale and density in…
Photography documenting branding and graphic identity for new residential, commercial and cultural development at Edinburgh Park, on behalf of design agency DNCO, representing their client. This involved investigating locations for a series of images from signage installation and concept branding identity elements, and also capturing the trams as they moved through Edinburgh streets with the…
