To celebrate its successful Lighting Strategy, Glasgow City Council commissioned photographer, Martin Hunter to capture the innovative lighting that has enhanced many of the City’s prominent buildings and public spaces. These spectacular results were reproduced in a stunning publication - Glasgow: City of Light and this exhibition showcased some of those outstanding images.
“Some of the lighting locations in the commission are so clear and coherent in their presentation, so straightforward to photograph, that abstracting some detail or section of the location becomes secondary. Glasgow Weir, St George’s Tron, Kingston Bridge and The Necropolis are all good examples of this. They clearly stand their ground and are less troubled by the distractions of competing architecture, lighting or street furniture. For these locations it’s enough to choose your place, your time and take your cue from the location itself.
My father was in the building trade and his enthusiasm for the buildings of Glasgow (baffling to me as a youngster) was often accompanied by the advice to “look up!” In a sense that’s what something like the City Lighting Strategy does. It raises your sight from the clutter and the noise and singles something out, something that might just convey something of the character of the city and something you never really noticed before.”
Martin Hunter