Having only lived up in the Highlands for around 4 months before we were thrown into lock down I found myself an ‘incomer’ as we’re called up here, with no way of really getting to know the folk in my community. Reading about the history of the fisher folk in my village bought to light the amazing strength of the fisher women, who would carry their husbands piggy back to the boats in the morning to stop them starting their shift wet and cold. This portrait project is a celebration of those women and of all the wonderful women and those they chose to carry that I met during this project.

My aim is still to display these on the beach by the firth where they were shot but for now I would like to share them here as its almost 2 years since I started this project in my community.

Huge thanks to these wonderful folk that stepped out into the water with me and shared some of their stories during 2020. x

(if you scroll back you can read my original post for this project)