Mearns Primary pupil’s image is commended in My Place Photography Competition

The image ‘Drain’ was submitted by 10-year-old Cara M. and was commended in the Primary Aged Category of the competition.

The My Place Photography Competition is a Scotland-wide built environment photography competition run by the Scottish Civic Trust for school-aged young people (4-18).

It encourages young people to explore the buildings, architecture and archaeology in the places they live, and experiment with using photography as a means of investigation and creative expression.

The winning, highly commended and commended entries for the Scottish Civic Trust My Place Photography Competition 2020 were announced online with videos from Fiona Hyslop, the Scottish Givernment’s Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture, and judging panel members Alex Paterson, Chief Executive of Historic Environment Scotland, and Colin McLean, photographer and chairman of the Scottish Civic Trust.

Ms Hyslop said: “I want to congratulate all of this year’s entrants for the exceptional standard of photography that has again been produced by Scotland’s school children for the My Place Photography Awards, and the many inventive ways in which they have captured their local built environments.

“The Awards are a terrific way to stimulate interest and to nurture a concern for our surroundings from an early age, and it’s great that we can still enjoy seeing the world through the eyes of our young people, by way of the online gallery this year.”

All entries to the competition can be seen in a virtual exhibition at My Place Scotland