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Andrew Paterson Collection

Visit the Andrew Paterson Collection website to learn more about the famous portrait photographer whose lifework forms the backbone of the SHPA.

Paterson's Inverness Portraits

Read the free interactive digital magazine about the life of Andrew Paterson.


News Update

01.08.2013

Over 100 images taken by the Andrew Paterson Studio, and held by the Inverness Royal Academy Archive, are digitally scanned and returned to the core Paterson Collection for inclusion in the Scottish Highlander Photo Archive.

28.07.2013

The Edinphoto website announces the launch of the Paterson Collection website.

25.07.2013

The British Genes and the British Photographic History blogsites announce the launch of the Paterson Collection website.

20.07.13

The new Andrew Paterson Collection website goes online, and the digital interactive magazine 'Paterson's Inverness Portraits' is published.

26.04.13

Spring issue of The North Magazine runs a follow-up feature on the Paterson film 'Mairi,' marking its 100th anniversary.

  Paterson's Inverness Portraits
24.04.13

Icon Films documentary 'Brave New Pneumatic World' screens on the BBC1 programme 'The One Show,' featuring a Paterson image from the SHPA.

03.02.13

6,000 images uploaded online.

  Pneumatic Coin Tubes
11.11.12

'Mairi,' Paterson's silent film from 1913 is screened at Eden Court Theatre as part of 'The Lost Art of the Film Explainer' presentation.

4.11.12

Official opening of the Innes Street Underpass Mural, a project in which several Paterson images of residents of yesteryear are used. The underpass, for many years dark and covered in graffiti, was transformed into an eye-catching mural by the photographer Lynn Robinson. It is 35 metres long and uses 1008 photographs in the finished piece.

  Innes Street Underpass
05.09.12

5,000 images uploaded online.

06.07.12

Summer issue of The North Magazine features an article on the Paterson film 'Mairi,' which was filmed on the shores of North Kessock 100 years before and is recognised as one of Scotland’s earliest narrative films, almost certainly the first to be made in the Scottish Highlands. (Click image at right to read digital version.)

05.04.12

4,000 images uploaded online.

  North Magazine
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