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| A year in the Highlands in pictures 05 March 2010 | |
| INVERNESS Olympian Ewan Macdonald, Caley Thistle player Grant Munro and city businessman David Sutherland are among the amateur photographers who took up a challenge to record Highland life. Now some of their efforts can be seen at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, along with professional photographer and artist Fin Macrae's own portraits of his volunteers for the year long ThreeSixFive project. For Highland 2007, the Highland Year of Culture, Macrae recruited 52 people from Shetland in the North to Argyll and Bute in the south to document a week in their lives, creating a photograph for every day. As well as world curling champion Macdonald, other well known figures involved included DJ Mylo from Skye and Oscar winning actress Tilda Swinton from Nairn, as well as some less known faces such as LifeScan employee Mairi Pearson from Inverness. "Over the 12 months, two high spec Canon digital cameras traversed the Highlands and Islands between the participants," Macrae said. "The images shot varied widely - views from a bedroom window; boots drying on a stove, friends enjoying a get-together or some beautiful Highland scenery. Tulloch Group chief executive David Sutherland pictured two of his cattle Effie and Balmoral. "All these images formed an online gallery, which the public could view and comment on. The response from the public was way beyond expectations and the project was well publicised in both local and national radio, and was also well covered in newspapers." Some of these photographs, along with Macrae's portraits of 32 of his photographers, are now on display at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery until Saturday 20th March. The exhibition has already been at venues from Thurso to Kingussie, but Inverness is the final stop on the tour and a last chance to see this unique record of Highland life in the 21st century. The limited edition book "ThreeSixFive - A Year In The Highlands & Islands" is now available to buy online (www.finmacrae.com) and at the gallery. |
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