City Shoot

So this is something I have been itching to do for quite some time - a city shoot with some guitars. Luckily, my oldest son is quite into his music and loves a wee strum on the guitar now and then. So I managed to convince him that we should combine my need for this type of shoot with his desire to play a few chords in the big smoke.

Glasgow is such a stunning city even in the most unlikely of places. Behind the facade of the glitzy shops, bars, restaurants is where you find the real city; the grit and grime of the back streets, that I love so much about Glasgow. It has all the riches of the West End or Charing Cross, and then just a few steps away you have the seedier end, where away from prying CCTV cameras, deals for services less salubrious are thrashed out. No wonder blockbuster movies are made here.

I wanted to show this in my shoot. I wanted to reveal the vulnerabilities of the city personified in my son. I wanted to show that, no matter how hard you may present yourself, no matter what veil you put on, at some point it will fall and your true self - the unedited version - will be revealed.

We all have dark and light in our DNA. We can all fall from grace, but that makes us who we are, and that’s what makes Glasgow what it is. Not perfect, not good or bad. It makes Glasgow, Glasgow.

I hope I have achieved this in the photographs.

Thanks for reading this.