Time has changed things for David Eustace. This should be apparent in New York Polaroids, 2004, a new exhibition by the internationally acclaimed photographer, which opens at SWG3’s Acid Bar in Glasgow this week. It should also be the case when Eustace becomes the first photographer to show at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts a few weeks later with Mar a Bha, which translates as As it Was. The latter is a collection of images taken on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides. Both shows are a long way from the celebrity portraits Eustace made his name with in the 1990s working for Vogue, Tatler and Elle, with the likes of Sophia Loren, Tracey Emin and Sir Paul McCartney all captured by Eustace’s lens. Like the world around him, however, Eustace keeps on moving, physically as much as artistically as he follows his own obsessions and avoids complacency. Each exhibition marks how Eustace’s work has progressed in different ways, just as they did when the two portfolios
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