Snapshots of a Lost World: the Decline of Scottish Industry

The photographs in this exhibition serve to memorialise an industrial history that is rich, complex and emotive.

This unique exhibition is displayed in three parts. Firstly, soak up the ‘Industry and Aesthetics’ HES touring exhibition before absorbing the historic images from the New Lanark Archive, showing the abandoned industrial landscape of the 60s/70s/80s.

This will be supplemented by contemporary pictures submitted by visitors as part of a summer photography competition which will serve to lead the narrative into the opportunities that these abandoned spaces present, and this is reflected in.

And lastly, enjoy the projects from Architectural undergraduate students from Glasgow School of Art that imagine what direction the industry and work in New Lanark could go in the future.

The exhibition coincides with New Lanark’s spectacular immersive sound and large-scale light installation illumination projecting images onto New Lanark’s impressive building facades - Shining Lives: Fortunes of Fate - which takes place from the 11th - 13th October & 17th - 20th October 2019. Shining Lives is an innovative light and sound experience at New Lanark World Heritage Site brought to you by Double Take Projections, where the 230-year-old buildings are turned into screens for lights, colours, historic images and videos.