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Glaciers, amazing wildlife and abandoned whaling stations in South Georgia
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This year I'm combining two great passions: photography and whisky.
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Documenting rural development and how climate change is devastating livelihoods in Georgia for Mercy Corps
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I hope to have caught something of the spirit of Scotland’s longest glen as well as people who seem to thrive in such a hostile environment.
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These images reflect a stillness beneath the country’s characteristic colour and vibrancy.
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I have loved the Bolivian Altiplano (Highlands) ever since I first travelled there almost twenty years ago.
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This collection of small islands in the mid Atlantic (once the last stopping off point for mariners before they struck out for the New World) are not for the faint hearted....
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Photographer and writer Jamie Grant is opening this year’s Winter Words Festival at Pitlochy Festival Theatre with his account of the sub-Antarctic isle of South Georgia on the 16th of February at 10am. He spent the 2015-16 austral summer on the island as Artist in Residence for The...
I was sent last summer by Scottish Wildlife Trust to photograph and interview people on the west coast who make their lives directly or indirectly from the sea in response to the consultation on proposed Marine Protected Areas in Scotland. I focused on Assynt and Coigach and met...
The development charity Mercy Corps sent me out to Georgia in September 2013 to document the impacts of climate change as well as photograph their development programmes in rural communities.Extreme weather is having a massive impact on agricultural productivity with high winds and rain destroying crops and eroding soil. Some...
My first book of black and white photos 'Winter in Glen Lyon', is published by the Aberfeldy 'Watermill. With wild land under more pressure in Scotland than ever before these images are a fleeting record of a vanishing frontier. It is up to us all to discover, explore and...
SWT Magazine, June 2017
The Falkirk Wildlife Watch group crouch around a white tray teeming with pond life at Juniper Wildlife Reserve in Grangemouth. Their central focus is a pulsating, inky black squiggle that inspires horror and awe in equal measure. James (aged 9) gently prods ‘Frankie’ the leech with a stick too...
My journey to South Georgia started in my imagination many long years ago. I was a teenager, browsing through my father’s collection of dusty hard-back books of travel and distant adventure when Sir Earnest Shackleton’s South practically jumped off the shelf. The spine was so broken...
Scottish Wildlife Trust Magazine, Jan 2016
It is the summer of 1850 and Sir Edwin Landseer sits in his modest artist’s retreat in Glen Feshie, completing the final sketches of what will become one of the most famed depictions of the Scottish Highlands. Renowned for his ability to paint with both hands at the same...
Scottish Wildlife Trust Magazine, May 2015
Edinburgh based landscape gardener John Frater could hear the new roadside verge he had designed in Portobello long before he saw it. The air was thick with the contented buzz of bees, hoverflies and wasps, all feeding on a profusion of tall prairie flowers. Gone was the monotone of mowed...
TGO Magazine, May 2014
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.” John Muir’s invitation echoes down the years and tugs at me every time I dip into one of his books. His enthusiasm for wild places is so irresistible, his faith in its restorative power so complete. He remained...