Peter Iain Campbell is an award-winning photographer born in Edinburgh and based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has a BA with honours in Photography & Film from Napier University in Edinburgh. Working predominantly within landscape, seascape and portraiture on long form projects, Iain utilises photography to explore liminal environments that would otherwise be inaccessible, seeking to identify particular subjects that both allure and repel.

From the summer of 2014, Iain spent two years working on a drilling rig in the central North Sea. This became the location for his first North Sea photography project, “Starlings on Fire”.  In 2016/17, Iain spent a further year working on a number of different installations throughout the Scottish sector of the North Sea. Since 2018, Iain has continued to explore the incongruous nature of the offshore industry by attempting to document the remaining production platforms and drilling rigs throughout the Scottish sector, shot from the perspective of the platform supply vessels that service these installations.

Over the two years of his Centre residency, Iain will continue this work, documenting the lives and experiences of oil and gas workers and installations, the decommissioning of rigs, and the fast-growing offshore wind developments. Iain began his residency with the Centre for Energy Ethics in September 2024.