A portfolio of creative travel photography comprising three projects set in Yemen, Mali and Japan respectively.

Each set of images explores the way in which we perceive reality, ranging from the animist anthropomorphism of the Dogon people in Mali, to the floating world which still exists in modern Japanese society.

Thirty years ago I left this country.  They said one day I would return; people always do.

They were right.

Loosely framed around the twenty five sites described in Who built Scotland, this is as much about the journeys to those places as it is about the places themselves. 

Inevitably much has changed in three decades.  Whether that is Scotland or me, this was not as I remember Scotland.

This book is in three parts, each representing a belief system which has shaped Georgia.

Paganism, which still features heavily in the festivals in the Caucasian mountains, Soviet Communism, which also still has its admirers, even, controversially in the idol worship of one of the world’s most notorious mass murderers of all time.

Finally, Orthodox Christianity, an ever-increasing force which seems to drag the country back into the arms of Mother Russia.

A short series of images from the area around Eyam, the Plague Village, inspired by the events of 1666, intending to express the sense of isolation of their quarantine.

2016 presented a sad indictment of modern society, as two nations turned their backs on their neighbours and the rest of the world in an ultimately selfish, isolationist gesture.

Three hundred and fifty years ago, a very different motivation for isolation was demonstrated as a community chose to separate itself from the world for the good of their neighbours.  In 1665, the bubonic plague reached Eyam, a small, lead-mining village in Derbyshire.  The villagers volunteered to quarantine themselves. Three-quarters of the population died; their neighbours survived. 

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