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20/02/2025

to a series of portraits I made of the front line staff at North Ayrshire Council - Love North Ayrshire It was great to meet and photograph such a diverse range of professionals.

01/01/2025

Happy New Year!🍾🎉🔔 I shot this with the wonderful cast of Beauty and the Beastie way back in May - well you've got to be prepared for the Bells! 🔔🔔🔔

🎉 Happy Hogmanay! 🥳 The Beauty and the Beastie cast and everyone here at the Pavilion Theatre would like to wish you all a very happy new year!

30/12/2024

My picture of the year. I've taken thousand of pictures for work and pleasure over the past 12 months but none has delighted me as much as this selfie. Taken in the back of the limousine as we made our way to the church for her wedding, my beautiful daughter looks radiant and so happy. It was a perfect moment in a perfect day.

20/12/2024

Thirty six years ago tomorrow night I was sitting having dinner with my wife and her parents when a news flash announced that a plane had gone down near Lockerbie. As you do when you’re a press photographer you grab your gear and head to where the news is happening. The sights that beheld us that night and days after will live with me always. Life is so precious, fleeting and fragile. Thinking of all those on PanAm flight 103 and those in Lockerbie who lost their lives that night and the families who still grieve all these years later.

19/12/2024

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I hope this happy wee boy and his teddies puts a smile on your face this festive season.

Instead of paying for cards to be sent out this year we've proudly made a donation to the Beatson Cancer Charity that works so hard to improve the lives of those affected by cancer.

Find out how you can help too: https://lnkd.in/esJ--exw

I’d like to wish you a very happy Christmas and hopefully look forward to working with you in the New Year.

Best wishes,

John

John Young
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07/12/2024

First Saturday in December so it must be the Lord Provost of Glasgow Baby's First Christmas Party. I've been privileged to provide the photography for this for the last 15 years and it really is a day that heralds in Christmas. Thank you to the Lord Provost for being so good with all the babies and a huge thanks to all my team for the support they provide and for keeping me sane (relatively) on the day!

02/12/2024

Great to be working with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Hollywood actress Kate Dickie recently. Kate has been named a patron of the Junior Conservatoire of Drama, Production and Film and will work with the students providing advice and support. Kate, a well known face to Game of Throne fans and the MCU's Loki, studied Dramatic Studies before graduating in 1993. She received an honorary doctorate from RCS in 2023 for services to drama.

28/11/2024

Good luck and 'break a leg' to the fabulous cast of Beauty and the Beastie at the The Pavilion Theatre as they have their opening night tonight. Here's a small selection of pictures I made of the cast way back in the summer. .purdon

06/11/2024

Some 37 years since I started as a staff photographer for the Glasgow Evening Times, and 15 years since I left the newspaper world, I still get a kick out of seeing one of my pictures used as a cover shot in today's paper.

26/10/2024

Just a quick reminder that the clocks go back an hour here in the UK tonight and we leave behind British Summer Time and revert to GMT. Here's a picture I made with the cast of Beauty & the Beastie to jog your memory! Tickets for this years The Pavilion Theatre panto on sale here: https://trafalgartickets.com/pavilion-theatre-glasgow/en-GB/event/pantomime/beauty-and-the-beastie-tickets

20/10/2024

Like many I was staggered to hear of Sir Chris Hoy's terminal cancer diagnosis. I am however in awe of his positivity and resilience following that devastating news, qualities that have defined his life and career. The grace he has shown after being told that he has between 2-4 years to live was followed by the news that his lovely wife, Sarra, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of MS. I've met and photographed Sir Chris many times and he is genuinely what you see; an amazing athlete, a nice guy, a good man. Why does thing like this happen to nice people like Chris and his wife - why not me? Would be his answer. I wish Chris, Sarra and their family much happiness in whatever time they have remaining and pray that is longer than what the doctors say.