Bothan - Glasgow

Dave Dickie

Field Trip

In August the Peebles Show arrived on the flat ground opposite Horsburgh Ford on the North coast of our territory.

Here, in the febrile, pre-referendum atmosphere the…

Chris Hurst

Folkestone

Heidi Kuisma

Two Parallel Universes

It is almost impossible here, on the Isle of Lewis and Harris, not to take beautiful images of landscape. The scale and elemental nature of the landscape, coupled with the…

Ruth MacPherson

Margate #2

Maragte’s heady days as a premier UK holiday destination may be well and truly over but a period of regeneration is in full swing with artists and entrepreneurs reinvigorating the town centre…

Tom Farmer

Slept on your arm again

You wake up in fits around the thing, try to shake some life into it. Reach with the good, other arm for wedding ring, phone and glasses, in that order. A shower, quick. A coffee, quickly after. Out on the balcony to just point your eyes at the…

Albie Clark

Elgol

Elgol, Isle of Skye – a slightly different take on one of the most famous views in Scotland

Elgol, Isle of Skye – a slightly different take on one of the most famous views in Scotland

Iain Sarjeant

What a difference a month makes

Documenting Britain for me feels a bit like a journal, its my monthly sit down on the laptop where I reflect and assess the previous months activity and…

Alec Galloway

Ellesmere Port

I was going to say that I have never visited Ellesmere Port before but then I noticed Cheshire Oaks retail park as I left and that would have meant I was telling porkies. I met a…

Stuart Pilkington

March 5, 2015

Heartlands #3

After a few weeks of driving around and making landscapes I soon felt the need for some human contact. I wanted to meet I was faced with the challenge of…

Robert Ormerod

Selsey

Heidi Kuisma

As Cold As Clay

Throughout the course of 2014, I’ve visited David frequently, documenting his daily routines, listening to his memories, fears, dreams and frustrations as he has navigated a year filled…

Jim Mortram

Accrington

My Dad was born in Lancashire and having turned seventy recently decided to make a trip up to Accrington to photograph all the houses from his youth and beyond. I asked to…

Stuart Pilkington

February 28, 2015

Chester

I have started to revisit some of the places that I had difficulties with previously. When I went to Chester last time I aborted my mission as I felt that…

Stuart Pilkington

February 25, 2015

The Ross of Mull

I’m finally getting round to editing and processing some of the material I produced for Northlands last summer. It quite often takes me a while to catch up with this, but I find…

Iain Sarjeant

The same picture

I left Leeds with too much luggage to carry the geraniums, so when my mum visited last month she brought me the Mother Plant and a selection of her descendants. I met her…

Corinne Silva

What My Father Didn’t Tell Me

language
he said

that dead space
far side

of our garden wall
where willow-herb

thrives on negligence
and the best

of my apples
fell.

John Glenday

Suspended Landscapes

Documenting interconnected landscapes through East Anglia, Essex and then along the Thames gateway to the shores of Kent. Exploring how the edges and peripheries of…

James Norton

Wet Plate Collodion

Wet plate collodion is a photographic process dating from 1851 and was the primary method of capturing images on glass or metal plates from the early 1850s until the 1880s…

Alastair Cook

February 15, 2015

Pre and post #Indyref

Błażej Marczak

in-between #3

fifty nine years old

fifty nine years old

he asks me where my home is

he asks me where my home is

Ella Dickinson

Catcher

The territory to the South of the Tweed is a temporary zone, uncertain land, occasional riverbed. Before the advent of the B7088 this was Horsburgh Ford, well enough known to…

Chris Hurst

Little words of Love

Writing this post during the annual Valentine’s Day frenzy, I wanted to include a couple of poems on the theme of love.

The postcard poem here…

Janet Lees

February 14, 2015

A non-pedestrian city

On New Year’s Day 2015 I was in Aberdeen. The city was quiet, asleep. I took this opportunity to record a short walk in the city centre – a document of the city at rest…

Luca Nasciuti

Young Activist: Katy at the ‘Dead Wall’

In 1869, a battle of wills and money was going on in Glasgow. Before the building of the new suburb of North Kelvinside on the southern edge of Maryhill…

Margaret Mitchell

Mell-Moorie

Last year I spent the winter in Shetland, where we had an unusually mild, snowless winter. This year I have spent the winter in Edinburgh, where temperatures have so far been too warm for any snow to linger on the pavements. For now, the memory of snow will have to suffice…

and then
we were nowhere;

[…]

Roseanne Watt

A journey to Stornaway

Light falling. In the austere landscape between Easter and Wester Ross, twilight darkens occasionally framing rooms of strange luminous geometry, glimpsed through undrawn curtains…

Ruth MacPherson

Teenage Wildlife

At this precise moment I am in the very early stages of planning a couple of new projects. This involves research, maps, thinking (a lot of thinking) and most of all time…

Alan McCredie

Winsford

A change of plan today as I had intended to go to Alderley Edge however I saw on my calendar that I had an appointment in Winsford so I went there instead…

Stuart Pilkington

February 12, 2015

Surfing Viking Bay

Whilst cycling along the costal path between Margate and Ramsgate on a cold, wet and windy Saturday, the last thing I thought I would encounter as I rounded the headland was a…

Tom Farmer

Mordançage Unst

Another island and another process. Experimenting at the moment with Mordançage, lots of bleaching and redevelopment involved, leaving room for all sorts of…

Anne Campbell

It's only Rock'n'Roll but I like it...

Its taken a while but Ive finally managed to combine my two great passions: Music and Glass into one recognisable and tangible project which will…

Alec Galloway

Altrincham

I’m transitioning to becoming self employed which means the usual sixteen hour days. It’s all stuff I enjoy so it’s a privilege however it was good to get a break today and do my weekly…

Stuart Pilkington

February 5, 2015

The North-West Corner

Over the Christmas break I revisited the northwest tip of Sutherland - the villages of Durness and Kinlochbervie - looking to explore the human landscape of these remote…

Iain Sarjeant

McArthur's Store

McArthur’s Store is an ongoing series of work made within the dwindling fishing community of Dunbar, a small town on Scotland’s Eastern Seaboard. For two summers…

Alastair Cook

February 1, 2015

100 Weeks of Scotland

My second book in three months came out at the start of December and most of my time has been spent promoting it and ding events related to it…

Alan McCredie

The view from your balcony, or “On Photographing The Things You Should.”

A brittle layer of sugary snow and the last of the wind-tossed leaves makes underfoot conditions treacherous…

Albie Clark

Making Colours Sing

One of the important elements of this project for me will be the opportunity to highlight the precarious nature of glass education in Scotland. As an…

Alec Galloway

Nelson Project #2

This is the Glasgow Herald, published the day after the Castlecary Rail Disaster in which my grandfather was killed. My Grandma must have kept it…

Alice Nelson

Lewis and Berneray

The Outer Hebrides, one of my favourite places in the world, and certainly amongst the most beautiful. After camping in the tail of a hurricane for two days…

Anne Campbell

High Rise Aberdeen

“Only one large municipality in the UK—the City of Aberdeen—managed to bypass completely the political and professional rejection of high flats, and carry on building them…

Błażej Marczak

Arterial-Ephemeral

The B7088 runs across the flow of its location. The higher, Western Borders is defined by steep sided valleys, well scoured by glaciers. There is a sense of linearity…

Chris Hurst

The Red Jan Line

23.12.14

I am spending Christmas in Leeds this year. I write this from my childhood bedroom, which has been taken over by my grandmother’s geraniums…

Corinne Silva

January 30, 2015

Sleep

Dave Dickie

in-between #2

Ella Dickinson

Roam #2

Harry Rose

Shoreham-by-Sea

Shoreham-by-Sea is a seaside town and port in West Sussex, England between the city of Brighton & Hove and the town of Worthing. It has a population of around 18,000…

Heidi Kuisma

Sketchbooks

James Norton

Words from underground

True to my project name, I’ve been scavenging words and phrases from a whole range of different sources. I particularly like doing this with posters and…

Janet Lees

January

Jim Mortram

An Apple, a Boulder, a Mountain

With this in her hand, everything is possible: mountains will wither into fruit, fruit will blossom into stones, stones will listen for…

John Glenday

Generation Pink

These photographs are from a series I’ve been working on for the past four years. It’s a documentary project recording the overwhelming presence and…

Kirsty Mackay

January 30, 2015

Above the Clouds

Above the land are the clouds, and above them is our imagination. It’s a landscape of possibilities we can’t reach but perceive beyond our senses. I focus on…

Luca Nascuiti

Andrea and The Children's Wood

This project starts by skirting around the edge, crossing the River Kelvin and dipping a toe into Maryhill. Some call this area North Kelvinside…

Margaret Mitchell

January

A while after the family photo was taken in Adrianouple 1895 my great grandmother Eleni by who I take my middle name died from trying to to induce an abortion eating Ergot…

Nina Bacos

Heartlands

New projects are born out of a germ of interest, an idea and a yearning to make or create. So after years of travelling between Edinburgh and Glasgow I began to explore…

Robert Ormerod

Yurden - A Circle Poem

Recently, my project has brought me to think a lot about loss – or, at least, absence. I came across an old burial formula in a book about…

Roseanne Watt

The Elephant in the House

My paperwork has cleared with The Western Isles Council, my background checks completed. The final stage of the taxi license process is to…

Ruth MacPherson

North and South Thanet

After reading an article describing some of Britain’s Eastern costal towns as the ‘front line’ in UKIP’s fight to gain seats in…

Tom Farmer

Congleton

Congleton is one of those towns that I was aware of in my youth. It was part of the vernacular of everyday conversations with my family and friends but apart from going to the…

Stuart Pilkington

January 27, 2015

St Helens

When I was in Haydock I photographed a woman dressed in red with a scarf around her face. She said at the time “I’m an actress and would you do my head shots?”…

Stuart Pilkington

January 19, 2015

Tarporley

The impish weather is playing with me at the moment but I guess that this can only be expected in mid winter. I look at my radar weather app…

Stuart Pilkington

January 13, 2015

Crewe

I am using this diary to document a process, a creative process, so it’s important to talk about the lows as well as the highs as they are an inevitable…

Stuart Pilkington

January 10, 2015

Llandrindod Wells, Wales

For the last two Christmases we have come to The Metropole Hotel in Llandrindod Wells, Wales. Last year I joked that it looked like…

Stuart Pilkington

December 24, 2014

December

I am idly googling the Elgin Marbles that were removed from the Parthenon in Athens in the beginning of the 1700th century by the Scottish nobleman and ambassador…

Nina Bacos

Disappeared People

When I first heard of the Picts several years ago, it was only a brief mention of their complete disappearance from Scotland. That sounded very definite and mysterious…

Agatha Albert

This Is Scotland

For the past two years I have been working on two books. Both projects are now complete and one of the books This Is Scotland has just been…

Alan McCredie

Where Are We? An Introduction.

Wincobank from a series on Le Tour de France in Yorkshire, 2014.

Wincobank from a series on Le Tour de France in Yorkshire, 2014.

During a recent portfolio review, I remarked that it’s sometimes important to step…

Albie Clark

Spiders & Beetles

Today I am working in my studio finalising glass pieces for the forthcoming Absent Voices exhibition taking place later in November. So far today I have painted…

Alec Galloway

Nelson Project

In my years as a filmmaker, I have never known a finished film to bear much resemblance to the initial idea and impulse to make it. Along the way ideas…

Alice Nelson

Reflective Processes

To get to know something, we observe, edge closer, our senses on full alert. We drink in landscape through sensation: looking, listening, smelling…

Anne Campbell

The Grey City

The Grey City is a record of the places and people who aren’t present in the glossy and idealised promotional publications of…

Błażej Marczak

Territories

The Scottish Borders could be described as a series of micronations. Even if you ignore the amalgamations since 1975 these are overlapping territories that…

Chris Hurst

My Garden

I am thinking about gardens at the moment: gardening as a political act, a radical act, an ideological act. Guerrilla gardening, The Royal Botanical Gardens, allotments…

Corinne Silva

November 24, 2014

Suicide Machine

I had the idea for this project in 2009 whilst checking into Gatwick Airport, London for a flight. After looking at my passport the desk attendant said…

Dan Wood

The Ruins

Deep inside Bourtreehill park there is a small clearing. In it sits what remains of Bourtreehill House, a mansion which has a history that stretches back to…

Dave Dickie

in-between

This project seeks to represent some of the everyday tensions and contrasts I see around me living in Britain. I often find myself between places, some of which are tangible and some not so obvious. I was raised in a small town, which lies…

Ella Dickinson

Roam

Harry Rose

Living Infinite

The sea is everything.
It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy.
It is an immense desert, where…

Heidi Kuisma

Sketchbook

So, welcome to my space on the Documenting Britain site – and first off I must say how delighted I am to be part of this group of inspiring individuals who are producing…

Iain Sarjeant

Parallax | Shift

Abandoned II

Abandoned II

An exploration into the multiplicity of views that occur at the edge of places, in which the trace of place is transposed by movement in the act of entering the edge of the city…

James Norton

Waiting in the wings of England

I’m so happy to be here as part of Documenting Britain, but this isn’t a very cheery post. I think that’s partly to do with the time of year, partly my time of life, but mostly the time we’re alive in. So many Big Things, some of them so huge they end up being invisible: elephant ghosts in our most…

Janet Lees

Dereham

I live in the small market town of Dereham, Norfolk. Dereham labels itself ‘The heart of Norfolk’, due to it’s central location within Norfolk…

Jim Mortram

The Migrants

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We paused that morning by a stand of alder and willow, where the Nairn buckles and curves, unravelling north-east towards the Firth.

Sunlight was scribbling October in the water. One by one the last birds let down, drawing their seams of thirst across a pool, then banking over the trees…

John Glenday

Bedminster

As a photographer, I have long been obsessed by looking. But that’s not unusual—we all are: in the age of social media, on demand TV and…

Kirsty Mackay

November 24, 2014

Reflections

Soon it’ll be eight weeks since my relocation to Aberdeen from London and this seems an appropriate time to start reflecting on this passage. A passage for it is taking place…

Luca Nascuiti

A Photographic Journey of a People and a Place

What is a place, a people?
Do the people make that place?

My work concentrates on people – the person in…

Margaret Mitchell

November

It is raining a little. The sky is patchy with light and grey clouds. On one side of the bus the mediterranean waves roar green and fierce-full toward the shore. On the other the naked…

Nina Bacos

The M8

The M8 is Scotland’s busiest motorway and one of the busiest in the UK, running between the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Thousands of people commute…

Robert Ormerod

An Introduction

A brief introduction; my name is Roseanne, and I am an Edinburgh-based poet from the Shetland Isles. I am currently reading for a PhD at the University of Stirling, in which I aim to…

Roseanne Watt

Beginnings

Last February I undertook a rushed journey from the South of France to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides. My uncle had died…

Ruth MacPherson

Warrington

Today I went to Warrington. It’s a town near to where I live and I am relatively familiar with it having visited it’s Multiplex cinema, IKEA and…

Stuart Pilkington

November 24, 2014

Winged Harp

For me the act of travel goes hand in hand with photography. Taking pictures is my excuse to explore and my reason for being in an unfamiliar place…

Tom Farmer