Document Scotland

Document Scotland is a photography collective founded in 2012 by Sophie Gerrard, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, Stephen McLaren and Colin McPherson.[1][2] Sarah Amy Fishlock joined in 2016. It makes documentary photography about Scotland, which it has exhibited at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Impressions Gallery, and included in a number of publications.

Members

Publications
  • DOC001. 2013. Newspaper format. With the photo-essays "Dunes" by Sophie Gerrard, "Snaw" by Stephen McLaren, "Catching The Tide" by Colin McPherson, and "Life in The 3rd" by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert; and an essay by Allan Brown.
  • DOC002: Seeing Ourselves. 2013. Newspaper format. Work by 10 photographers, as well as an editorial essay. Published to coincide with an exhibition at Fotospace gallery in Fife.
  • DOC003. 2013. Digital magazine for iPad. With four photo-essays, single images and a written essay.
  • DOC004: Document Scotland in Beijing.
  • DOC005: Common Ground. 2014. Book. With two photo-essays each from Sophie Gerrard, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, Stephen McLaren and Colin McPherson; work by photography collective A Fine Beginning; and essays by Malcolm Dickson and Anne McNeill.
  • DOC006: The Ties That Bind. 2015. Digital magazine. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
  • Document Scotland. Southport: Café Royal, 2015. A zine each by Gerrard (Tunnock's), Sutton-Hibbert (North Sea Fishing), McLaren (Dookits) and McPherson (Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw), in a case. Edition of 50 copies.

Exhibitions
  • Seeing Ourselves, Fotospace Gallery, Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland, 3 June – 31 July 2013. Work by the founding members of Document Scotland as well as Martin Hunter, Robert Ormerod, Jenny Wicks, Radek Nowacki, Giulietta Verdon-Roe, and Sarah Amy Fishlock.[2][5][6]
  • Document Scotland: The Ties that Bind, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 26 September 2015 – 24 April 2016.[7][8][9][10] A Sweet Forgetting by Stephen McLaren,[11] Unsullied and Untarnished by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, When Saturday Comes by Colin McPherson, and Drawn to the Land by Sophie Gerrard.[1]
  • Document Scotland, Beyond the Border: New Contemporary Photography from Scotland, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK, 1 July – 27 September 2014;[12][13][14][15] Granary Gallery, Berwick Visual Arts, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK, 11 February – 14 May 2017.[16] Curated by Anne McNeill.[17]

References
  1. Sutton-Hibbert, Jeremy. "The photography collective exploring Scotland's past and present". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-08-11.
  2. "Document Scotland: A collective capturing a nation". The Scotsman. Retrieved 2018-08-11.
  3. "RGU to host exhibition of the best UK photography talent". Press and Journal. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  4. "Sarah Amy Fishlock joins Document Scotland". Document Scotland. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  5. "Seeing Ourselves – New Documentary Photography from Scotland". The List. Retrieved 2018-08-11.
  6. "Exhibition: "Seeing Ourselves"". Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research. Retrieved 2018-08-11.
  7. "Art review: Mixed messages on Scottish independence". Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  8. "Document Scotland: The Ties That Bind". The List. 3 September 2015. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  9. "Scotland's wild, untameable countryside and the women who work it". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2018-08-11.
  10. "Document Scotland: The Ties That Bind". Time Out.
  11. Shakur, Fayemi. "A Sweet Forgetting: Slavery, Sugar and Scotland". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  12. "Caledonia dreamin': the best of Scottish photography – in pictures". The Guardian. 16 September 2014. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2018-08-12 – via www.theguardian.com.
  13. "Document Scotland, Beyond the Border: New Contemporary Photography from Scotland, Impressions Gallery, Bradford". Aesthetica. Retrieved 2018-08-11.
  14. Coomes, Phil (30 June 2014). "American always, Scottish forever". BBC News. Retrieved 2018-08-12 – via BBC.
  15. Popham, Peter (20 July 2014). "Photographer Colin McPherson walked the Scottish border to meet the people pondering independence – and their view of England". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  16. "Beyond the Border: New Contemporary Photography from Scotland". The Maltings Theatre & Cinema. Retrieved 2018-08-11.
  17. "Beautiful Photos of What May Be the World's Next National Border". The New Republic. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
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