Documentary work rooted in Inverclyde

For decades, visual coverage of the lower Clyde reduced our shoreline to shuttered yards and rain-slicked concrete. This archive counters that narrow framing by documenting working slipways, morning bakeries, and neighborly care with clarity.

Visual cinema and local oral history belong together. By recording ambient harbor audio alongside medium-format stills, each project preserves the unhurried speech and tidal rhythms of people who build their lives along this coastline.

We listen to the water and the room before opening the camera case.

Authentic visual records require patience. We never ask subjects to stage their daily chores or perform for the lens.

Documentary archive in numbers

9 yrs

documenting the Clyde tideline

14

short films produced

26

community partnerships completed