A UNIQUE photography exhibition based on conversations about the relationship between tourism, community heritage and landscape around the North Coast 500, has opened in the Caithness village of Castletown.
Julian Grant, a PhD student at the University of the Highlands and Islands, developed Living Landscapes of Castletown in partnership with the Castlehill Heritage Centre in the village.
Five local residents took photographs with disposable film cameras to document and reflect on their own relationship with the human and natural landscapes around them. The participants shared and discussed the stories behind the photos in a series of interviews and group discussions, and then prepared captions to accompany a public exhibition.
It is the first of several collaborative projects being carried out in case studies around the north Highlands as part of Grant’s PhD.
The 26-year-old, who lives in Thurso, said: “Conducted in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has produced a unique and vivid record of Castletown at this
moment in time.”
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