Alan is a mature practioner, he has spent a career as a commercial photographer. Since 2017 he has returned to the fine art photography he first practised as a young man after college.
Alan was born in Clydebank, then, a shipbuilding town on the outskirts of Glasgow steeped in the culture of a heavy industry town.
He studied photography in Glasgow.
After college Alan was awarded bursaries from The Scottish Arts Council to work on his own projects- a suite of pictures expressing a sense of alienation based on his hometown of Clydebank. In addition Thomas Joshua Cooper had him exhibit in the photography department in the Art School. He also had a show at the Washington Street Arts Centre of the Clydebank pictures alongside an exhibition of the Farm Security Administration Depression, photographers included Walker Evans an early influence on Alan.
From 2017. He has resumed his art photography practise. Currently exhibiting at Sogo Arts Glasgow until the 24th of May
