A mission capturing portraits of former lighthouse keepers by Scotland-based photographer Conor Gault. Gault’s grandfather was a lighthouse keeper in Scotland for over 30 years. He ended his profession on Honest Isle South earlier than the automation of Scottish lighthouses within the late 90s. “The Final Lighthouse Keepers of Scotland” is a part of an try to analysis and depict custom and tradition by home (re)discovery in addition to a private effort to attach along with his family:
“The mission focuses on capturing portraits of the previous keepers and any quick household, as I journey to the keepers’ properties and their outdated lighthouse stations to doc them, their environment, their expertise and reminiscence of an extinct observe and distinct lifestyle, and discover some echoes of the previous in buildings and tales.”
