Author Description

For 30 years now, Brian Anderson has been taking photographs of Glasgow. He has wandered the streets at all hours, seen the city at its best and worst. And all the time the camera is with him, an extension of his eye, just waiting for the right moment, the right combination of people and place and light and emotion.Born and raised in the East End of the city, he is the latest in a long line of photographers – from Oscar Marzaroli to Harry Benson and Raymond Depardon – who have tried to frame Glasgow, to catch the quicksilver nature of the place in all its moods. Anderson’s photographs, now gathered together in a new book, Eye Belong to Glasgow, are a history of a modern city over three decades, charting its highs and lows and the currents of humanity that have flown through its streets.In the end it’s possible that it’s his images of Glasgow that will prove to be his legacy. A vision of a city at the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st in all its ragged glory, in all its pain and joys. This is Glasgow. In black and white.