Scotland Once Was - Photographic Exhibition
Join us at Gallery Close for this Photography Exhibition by Robert Blomfield and Doug Corrance of a Scotland now gone!
About Scotland Once Was - Photographic Exhibition
Robert Blomfield:
Born in 1938, Robert Blomfield was practising street photography in the UK from the late 1950s through to the early 1970s. This pursuit ran alongside his medical studies at Edinburgh and subsequent years spent as a junior doctor in London.
An engaging manner and healthy disrespect for authority allowed him to get close to a myriad of subjects, and the work he produced from this period forms one the highest quality archives of the era. It includes striking images of the changing face of Britain’s inner cities through to the peace movement of the late 1960s. Children playing in the streets held a particular fascination.
Doug Corrance:
Doug was born in Falkirk in 1947 but since the age of 7 grew up in Inverness. He knew his future would either be as a photographer or a chef.
He began on a local newspaper and his training in those early days helped define his street photography style.
Doug has been shooting Scotland for over five decades and in this period his work has taken on both cultural and historical significance featuring as it often does, a world that has long gone. With a number of books to his name he continues to shoot daily and is rarely seen without a camera in hand.
Compared to many of today's overly retouched and sanitised images, Doug is a purist, preferring a similar approach used by the likes of National Geographic, using very little or no post production thus allowing the reality of the world to be revealed. He has and continues to capture a refreshingly naturalistic and, against the some trends, upbeat view of Scotland.
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