Fay Godwin

Stone industrial buliding on the Lecht

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About this artwork

Fay Godwin is known for her black and white photographs of the British countryside. Her works document the traces of human occupation on land, both past and present. Godwin explained: ‘There is virtually no landscape in Britain that has not been worked, affected by human use, and this is what particularly interests me’. This is one of a series of 34 photographs from Godwin’s project Whisky roads of Scotland (1982). The subject of the study was the whisky industry in the northeast of the country. This photograph shows the site of an old iron ore mine on the north edge of the Cairngorm National Park. It borders an old trail used in the 17th and 18th centuries by whisky smugglers in order to evade oppressive tax regulations from London

Published September 2022

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Fay Godwin

Fay Godwin