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Motherwell Heritage Centre08 September - 03 NovemberClydeside 1974-76 covers a vast geographical area from Elvanfoot to Stepps, Paisley to Greenock, as well as many rural districts where people worked in farming, forestry, fishing and tourism. This Clydeside was one of the two or three most intensely industrialised regions of Europe and during the mid 70’s was experiencing acute economic decline. For this exhibition, Herman revisited his original project which, until the recent opening at…See More

Alex Boyd launches his stunning new photography book St Kilda: The Silent Islands at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow. Landscape and documentary photographer Alex Boyd captures the reality of St Kilda in a series of stunning photographs. His focus encompasess not only the ruinous vestiges of the indigenous St Kildans, the last of whom where evacuated in the 1920s, but also the presence of the Ministry of Defence today and its impact on this fragile wilderness landscape. Using a 'battered…See More

Elbow room is the third annual exhibition by the New Photographers Guild, a photographic mentoring initiative led by Elaine Livingstone, Claire Stewart and James Pfaff in association with Street Level Photoworks. Over the course of the last six months each of the eight participating artists have made work in response to the theme of ‘Latitude’. The photographs on display showcase a multifaceted approach to picture making by a diverse group of young and emergent photographic artists based in…See More