Talks & Lectures | Counted: Gingers

Artist Kieran Dodds and Professor of Quantitative Genetics, Albert Tenesa (University of Edinburgh) discuss the genetics and aesthetics of red hair. Dodds’ photographic series, Gingers was on display as part of the Counted | Scotland's Census 2022 exhibition. 

This talk was originally broadcast live and is followed by responses to audience questions. 

 

17 November 2022
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Kieran Dodds | Gingers

Curator Louise Pearson speaks to photographer Kieran Dodds about his project Gingers and how we can trace Scottish history through hotspots of ginger hair around the world.

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Talks & Lectures | Counted: Scotland’s Census Eigg panel discussion

A panel discussion in response to our Counted | Scotland's Census 2022 exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Chaired by Louise Pearson, Curator of Photography we invited photographer Danny North to discuss his series As I Found Her: A Portrait of Eigg with Eigg Heritage Trust Secretary Maggie Fyffe, and Chair of Community Land Scotland, Ailsa Raeburn.

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