A new exhibition gathers together the work of 14 photographers who cast a female eye over the rituals of rural communities and city dwellers
Margaret Fay Shaw: “I chose South Uist as the island least visited by strangers and where there would be an opportunity to live among a friendly and unprejudiced people not self-conscious of their unique heritage”Pèigi and Màiri MacRae cutting oats on South Uist, 1930, by Margaret Fay Shaw
Living in communities for a number of years, some of the women in this exhibition were able to observe ways of life connected with the seasons and experience time with individuals at work, leisure and play. By doing so, a more realistic and detailed picture of everyday life could be recorded.
Dr Garvie captured communal work in North Ronaldsay: reroofing the baker’s shop and repairing the unique wall that encircles the high shoreline around the island, keeping the seaweed-eating sheep on the foreshoreBuilding a tangles stack on the ‘steeth’, 1930-40, by Dr Beatrice Garvie Dr Beatrice Garvie was the medical doctor for 16 years in North Ronaldsay. In particular, she photographed the babies she had delivered. Garvie also photographed aspects of an aerodrome being built on North Ronaldsay and the excitement of island events such as the first Royal Mail flight in 1939 linking up the UK to North Ronaldsay.
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