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Current Exhibition - Inside the Outskirts

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INSIDE THE OUTSKIRTS

22nd September - 6th November 2010

Keith Brame - Amy Copeman - Paul T Cowan - Lindsay Donovan
Andrew Duke - Malcolm Irving - Ayesha Malik - Kirsten Scheuerl
Andrew Shaw - Anastasia Voronina

Presenting a mixed body of work by ten contemporary photographers who have roots in different disciplines of photography.

Inside The Outskirts explores subjects that correspond to photo journalism, documentary, and fine art photography.

Covering issues close to home, such as the impending closure of Meadowbank Velodrome (where Sir Chris Hoy trained) to the more distant reaches of the Russian winter landscape and an intimate portrait of the Leopard Man of Skye.

It is through these otherwise overlooked areas that this exhibition hopes to elevate an awareness of subjects that sit on the periphery of our culture and society.

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Malcolm Irving

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Edinburgh-Police-Boxes/142511312433250

‘Box061’

'Edinburgh Police Boxes is a series of photographs of the facades of these distinctive police boxes of Scotlands capital city. The pictures were all shot from the same perspective - either a front or rear elevation with the field of view parallel to the face of the subject. The series documents, with an objective viewpoint, the different characteristics of what are on cursory inspection identical items and takes in as many examples as possible within the confines of the project.

The equipment used was a 4x4cm frame twin lens reflex camera using 127 colour reversal film, a format that was discontinued by Kodak in 1995. Two Croatian manufacturers still produce film in this size today, however the colour reversal Macochrome film used for this project, of which only two rolls were available at the time of shooting, has also been discontinued. The intention was to use an out of date camera to take photographs of an out of date subject'.

Andy Shaw

www.eddlestoneviashiplaw.blogspot.com

‘Meadowbank, Turn 3’

Andy Shaw is a local photographer whose work has featured in various Skateboarding, Music, Youth Culture and Fashion magazines. Most of his current work is based around his long running obsession with cycling, the freedom which it allows. It’s history, characters, back roads, hidden glens and the weather.

This image is from an ongoing project on Meadowbank Velodrome, famous as the training ground of Sir Chris Hoy, but far removed from the technology and glitter of modern Olympic track cycling.

One of a limited edition of six signed giclee prints on German Etching paper.

Paul T Cowan

www.paultcowan.com

‘Silver Array’, ‘Dead Belfast’

Paul T Cowan is a Professional Photographer based in Leith with a passion for alternative and creative methods of image capture. As well as commercial work in Editorial, Interiors and Travel photography, Paul carries out personal work with old, plastic, toy and pinhole cameras. His personal work currently looks at the various layers in society in his native Leith. The shots being exhibited are layered panoramic using the wrong type of film in an old camera combining various locations around Leith.

Lindsay Donovan

www.stopdownphotography.co.uk

‘Retro Pepsi Machine - Sun Studios, Memphis’,
‘Abandoned Roadside House - Backroads, Central Georgia, USA’

Lindsay Donovan is an Edinburgh based photographer specializing in landscape and detail photography. She has been photographing her surroundings since she was a teenager but has begun to focus her skills in the last few years and has built up a solid body of work.

Initially a dedicated landscape photographer Lindsay has always been drawn to the coast, perhaps due to her Irish coastal roots. Seascapes with interesting skies will always remain her passion. More recently she has been focusing on themes such as decay and the passing of time, both of which present interesting opportunities to document texture and its interplay with light – a strong element in all her work.

Lindsay says the qualities she would most like to convey through her photography are serenity, calmness and a desire to “be there”.

Andrew Duke

www.andyduke.com

‘Niall’, ‘Tom’, ‘Uwe Stefan’

'The photographs look at people in search of their own space, often rejecting society's conventions.

Niall, a crofter above Loch Duich, fled his native Edinburgh after falling in with the wrong crowd and rebelling against authority. "Here, if I want to ride bare-back and wear a Santa hat in summer I can."

Tom Leppard - the renowned Leopard Man of Skye - lived in a shack alongside a remote loch on the island for over 20 years, his body covered in leopard tatooes. Now in his 70s, he lives in sheltered housing in Broadford.

Two zimmermen - craftsmen who travel for three years working as apprentices in communities for bed and board before being allowed to return home - Uwe and Stefan decided to settle on a remote Highland farm rather than return to their homes in Austria and Switzerland.

Andrew Duke is a photographer working throughout the UK as well as internationally. Originally a news photographer, he has recently been exploring social issues through documentary photography and photojournalism.'

Kirsten Scheuerl

www.kirstenscheuerl.com

‘Kinshaldy’

Tentsmuir forest, in Fife, is adjacent to Kinshaldy beach and is notable for the many concrete blocks distributed along the shoreline. These acted as coastal defence against landing craft during World war II.

I've captured my dog, Woody, swimming in a pool created by 2 bricks.

Background - BAhons Drawing and Painting, Duncan of Jordanstone, 1996

Ayesha Malik

www.ayeshamalik.co.uk

‘Audrey Hepburn’, ’Point of Entry’

The work shown here is taken from two separate projects, and is part of an ongoing concern with urban spaces. Architecture, one of the recurring aspects of my work, is an area in which to explore human relationships within the constructed spaces that we live.

For me, being Inside the Outskirts meant looking at the parallels between the overlooked aspects of the city and the peripheries of the picture plane. Photography is always giving a partial view, and sometimes it is what it suggests beyond the frame that is more beckoning than the image within.

Anastasia Voronina

www.anastasiavoronina.com

Part of the series ‘Hope is a waken dream’, ‘Within the Light’

This image represents a moment of a fading away world within a reality and something beyond it – eternal hope and dreams. This photograph gives an impression of the subtle feeling of life.

It belongs to the series of images ' Hope is a waken dream', which was shot in the outskirts of a Russian city in the early morning of the first of January.

Keith Brame

www.keith-brame.com
http://pa.photoshelter.com/c/brame
http://www.jmt.org

‘Ally, Crofter, Heaste, Skye’, ‘Ally, ranger and stalker, Glen Nevis’, ‘Katy Mary, Peat Cutting, Drinan, Skye’, ‘John, Whelk Gathering, Loch Slapin, Skye’

The John Muir Trust owns some of the most dramatic, beautiful and remote tracts of wild land in Scotland. In Skye, Sutherland, Knoydart, and the Central Highlands, the iconic mountains of Ben Nevis and Schiehallion, Quinag and Ladher Bheinn, Blaven and the Red Cuillins, and wild coasts of Sandwood Bay and Loch Hourn are cared for by the Trust to keep intact their wild character.

I have been photographing the Trust’s Wild Land, and the rugged landscapes of North Harris, North Lewis, Assynt and the Cairngorms for the John Muir Trust.

While photographing the wild and iconic landscapes, I also try to meet some of the people who live and work there…

Amy Copeman

www.aimhighphoto.co.uk

‘Gate & Wall’, ‘Saughton Mains Allotments’

We live in a society which is losing its sense of community, this project explores one place which still has a thriving community, a place where recycling is not a new concept, and where even though there are fences, the individual allotment boundaries are open, an indication of the sense of trust and community amongst allotment holders.