Leaving Home: an Alternative View of the Outer Hebrides by John Maher & Ian Paterson

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More than 35 years ago, John Maher was helping shape the musical landscape of punk Britain as the drummer in one of the country's biggest rock bands.


Now the former Buzzcocks member lives his life to a very different beat.
The route from punk band legend to drag-racing engine specialist is not that difficult to imagine but, in his spare time, Mr Maher can be found trying to capture the beauty of the landscape on the Isle of Harris.

Having moved from Manchester to the Western Isles, the 53-year-old is preparing to stage his first photographic exhibition — alongside fellow self-taught photographer Ian Paterson.
The two men's work offers a unique snapshot of the island's history captured through photographs of empty Hebridean homes.

The exhibition, Leaving Home: an Alternative View of the Outer Hebrides, has been funded online as a Kickstarter project The exhibition hopes to "document and reflect on the abandonment of croft houses throughout the Western Isles in the second half of the last century" and will include photographic prints and large-format installations.


Suspended in time: Eerie photographs capture decay of remote Scottish island homes that relatives can't bear to sell 
  • Photographs taken by former Buzzcocks drummer John Maher show abandoned homes on remote Scottish islands
  • Haunting images taken in Outer Hebrides show properties rotting away as they lie untouched and unchanged
  • But homes are often deliberately left exactly as they are following the death of loved ones as a memorial












Leaving Home: an Alternative View of the Outer Hebrides  

by John Maher & Ian Paterson

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