The roots of David Peat's photography lie firmly in the classic street photography genre.

Continually inspired by the masters of street photography and their skill at seeing and hunting a meaningful image within a moment in time, Peat has quietly built his own personal portfolio of images during a working life around the world.

His earliest work, a portfolio from 1968 - shot when he was just 21 - is included in this exhibition and includes images of the street life of children in Glasgow, taken against the background of crumbling tenement buildings and a city in transition. These now have an extraordinary archival value and add to the body of work on life in Glasgow created around the same time by other noted Scottish photographers like Oscar Marzaroli and Joseph McKenzie.

From 1970, to the present time, his collection of street photography from around the world has grown over these forty years. There are also a number of never before seen images in both categories that the photographer has recently uncovered. These have been printed for the exhibition by Glasgow photographer Robert Burns.

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