Restoration Yard

Flannery O’kafka (she/they), is an artist living and working in Glasgow. Her practice centres on photography as a means of navigating memory and identity. Working mainly with 35mm snapshot photography, she creates deeply personal works that explore adoption, absence and the search for home. In 2022 she won the RSA Morton Award for Lens-based Media and used the funds to help make Wake Wake Island. This accessible book expands the experience of photography to multiple senses. 

Another copy of Wake Wake Island is on display at Dalkeith Palace, which presently does not have step-free access. There are plans in place to resolve this, and hopefully the palace will be fully accessible soon. 

Alex Boyd is a Scottish photographer, printmaker, and writer whose work explores Scotland’s landscapes and has a deep engagement with Scottish identity and environment. In 2013, Boyd’s RSA Residency at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig fed into his series The Point of The Deliverance, in which he used the antique wet-plate collodion process to chart the ancient Atlantic coastlines and mountains of Scotland and Ireland. The series is a unique visual record through the eyes of a photographer making a pilgrimage to the edges of the Celtic world.

Dr. Thomas Keith was a Scottish surgeon and pioneering photographer. He practiced medicine in Edinburgh, later serving as Queen Victoria’s physician in Scotland. Between 1852 and 1857, he dedicated himself to photography, mastering the waxed paper process and capturing evocative images of Edinburgh and Scotland. Inspired by the early pioneers of photography in Scotland David Octavius Hill RSA and chemist Robert Adamson Keith’s legacy bridges medicine and art, creating a lasting photographic record of his time.