DISAPPEARING GLASGOW

Photographer and filmmaker Chris Leslie is widely acknowledged as the most consistent chronicler of the city’s recent history. This new multimedia exhibition and accompanying book ‘Disappearing Glasgow’ documents an era of spectacular change in Glasgow through photography and film.

The skyline of Glasgow has been radically transformed as high rise tower blocks have been blown down and bulldozed. 30% of the cities High Rise flats have disappeared since 2006, communities dispersed across the city and the East End has ‘been raised from the ashes’ via the Commonwealth Games. Does this Disappearing Glasgow herald a renaissance in the city?

For the past 9 years Chris Leslie has self funded his own photography / multimedia project documenting this latest round of regeneration/demolition in his home city. By recording interviews and archive gathering with current and former residents he tells the stories of those on the frontline of what seems an endless cycle of demolition and destruction in Glasgow. The project exists as photographs as well as short multimedia films and objects found on the journey.

A photo book of Disappearing Glasgow was published in Oct 2016 by Freight Publishing – selling out of 1500 copies in 3 months. A second edition is planned for release in April 2017.