Alastair Cook | McArthur’s Store – Saturday 6th May 2-4pm, Dunbar Town House
McARTHUR’S STORE is a new collection of wet plate collodion portraits and contextual pinhole photography of the fishing community in Dunbar, made at this historic creel store over the past five years. This work is dark, mercurial and truthful.
“Arresting and nostalgic, contemplative and intriguing…Cook’s portraits create their own atmosphere and intrigue. Rooted in place, they reflect its spirit, at once harsh and poetic; the tracings of light from a northern sky on raw metal.”
Giles Sutherland, The Times
Wet plate collodion is an elemental process which is fraught with inconsistencies; mastering the extremes and vagaries of the summer’s weather conditions and the special quality of Dunbar’s ultra-violet light are the hallmarks of Alastair’s work, indelibly captured and encapsulated, along with the dynamic of his subjects, within the layers and physicality of each glass or tin plate; to the appreciation of all who have seen them.
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