Sight Lines

photography exhibition Holger Mohaupt & Tracey Fearnehough

 People, place and stories form an integral part of our everyday lives. We associate particular locations with personal experiences, historical events and social interactions. We store impressions of places and social interactions as memory. Photographic images are a means to capture some of those moments and preserve them for the future.  

The exhibition Sight Lines focusses on the ephemeral and the emotional moments in life, the small and somehow insignificant gestures and constellations creating a visual archive of everyday stories, a homage to heritage and the value of contemporary (Scottish) culture.

The artists and filmmakers Tracey Fearnehough and Holger Mohaupt both based in North Berwick, travelled the coastline between Dunbar and North Berwick to look for the heritage of the mundane and the ordinary. The back of a cement factory, the car park of a nuclear power station, are in the mix together with crab fishing youngsters and the image of a man’s hand in a glove against a blue sky. Their delicate compositions and the sensitive framing of their images are an invitation to remember, reflect and appreciate the environment that surrounds.    

 The photographs will be exhibited in shop windows and community venues around North Berwick. The project was commissioned by Historic Environment Scotland.