Historic Environment Consultant
HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT PHOTOGRAPHY
Images contributed to this major new history of Scottish furniture published by the National Museums of Scotland in 2024.
Detail of painted decoration on a chair designed by Thomas Chippendale for Paxton House, Berwickshire. Photographed for a catalogue of Chippendale furniture.
Colour checker chart for on-site copy photograpy of a private art collection, 2019.
Images contributed to this major new history of Scottish furniture published by the National Museums of Scotland in 2024.
Commissioned photography for:
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Publications
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Lectures/talks
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Catalogues/Inventories
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Recording (of change in a building/landscape)
Equipment used includes a Canon 5D, Mark IV, full-frame digital camera with L-series lenses.
Specialist historic environment subject matter includes:
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Buildings
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Conservation areas
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Gardens and designed landscapes
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Engineering
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Interiors
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Collections (artworks, paintings, sculpture etc.)
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Furniture
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On site copy photography (books, prints etc. that cannot be moved for conservation or insurance reasons)
Example 1 - Catalogue
Photography for a catalogue of the Thomas Chippendale furniture at Paxton House, Berwickshire. The photographs were later used in the book accompanying the Chippendale tercentenary exhibition at Paxton in 2018.
Example 2 - Lectures
Photographs for a lecture on the Scottish Baroque at Drayton Hall, South Carolina, USA.