Energy-in-Motion Galleries – Iain Campbell

Peter Iain Campbell is the incumbent Artist-in-Residence at the Centre for Energy Ethics.

An award-winning photographer born in Edinburgh and based in Glasgow, Scotland, 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.

You can see these images and more in his new book We Drift like Worried Fire.