Projects

[1087] Aerofilms

Location of Project Material: All over Scotland, Outside Scotland, Borders, Central Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, Grampian, Highlands, Lothian, Orkney, Shetland, Strathclyde, Tayside, Western Isles

[1084] Visits to Crete

Colourful and evocative images everyday life in the Greek island of Crete taken by Cairns Aitken.  Market places, animals, cafe scenes and characterful faces all feature.  Prof. Aitken, the photographer and contributor of the project, was an academic physician/psychiatrist in Rehabilitation Medicine, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and retiring as Vice-Principal at the University of Edinburgh in 1994. He was born in Dunoon, Argyll in 1933. He has had a life-long interest in photography, and in completing projects. He was awarded the CBE in 1998 for his contribution to the Health Services.

Location of Project Material: Outside Scotland

[1083] Visits to Italy

Vibrant colourful images of Italy taken by Cairns Aitken. Geographically diverse, the locations depicted include Amalfi, Capri, Tuscany and Sicily, while the subjects include religious imagery, street markets, coastlines and Roman remains.  Prof. Aitken, the photographer and contributor of the project, was an academic physician/psychiatrist in Rehabilitation Medicine, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and retiring as Vice-Principal at the University of Edinburgh in 1994. He was born in Dunoon, Argyll in 1933. He has had a life-long interest in photography, and in completing projects. He was awarded the CBE in 1998 for his contribution to the Health Services.

Location of Project Material: Outside Scotland

[1082] Bavaria

Pictures of Bavaria, Southern Germany, taken by Cairns Aitken. The subjects include baroque churches, Nazi architecture and the landscape and scenery of Bavaria.  Prof. Aitken, the photographer and contributor of the project, was an academic physician/psychiatrist in Rehabilitation Medicine, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and retiring as Vice-Principal at the University of Edinburgh in 1994. He was born in Dunoon, Argyll in 1933. He has had a life-long interest in photography, and in completing projects. He was awarded the CBE in 1998 for his contribution to the Health Services.

Keywords: Germany, baroque, religious, Speer

Location of Project Material: Outside Scotland

[1080] Normandy 1944

Normandy, in Northern France, was the location of one of the turning points in the Second World War.  Under German occupation from 1940, it was liberated by allied troops in 1944 in a series of daring landings on its beaches. Cairns Aitken recently revisited the sites of these landings and has kindly agreed to share some of his images with Scran. Prof. Aitken, the photographer and contributor of the project, was an academic physician/psychiatrist in Rehabilitation Medicine, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and retiring as Vice-Principal at the University of Edinburgh in 1994. He was born in Dunoon, Argyll in 1933. He has had a life-long interest in photography, and in completing projects. He was awarded the CBE in 1998 for his contribution to the Health Services.

Keywords: Second World War, WWII, World War Two, Omaha, Sword

Location of Project Material: Outside Scotland

[1079] Arras 1917

Arras is the capital of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France on the Scarpe river, and the site of a major battle in the First World War. These images,  taken by Cairns Aitken, revisit the cemetery that commemorates the fallen soldiers on both sides some nine decades later, and provide a sobering counterpart to the harrowing images of the battlefield found elsewhere on Scran.  Prof. Aitken, the photographer and contributor of the project, was an academic physician/psychiatrist in Rehabilitation Medicine, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and retiring as Vice-Principal at the University of Edinburgh in 1994. He was born in Dunoon, Argyll in 1933. He has had a life-long interest in photography, and in completing projects. He was awarded the CBE in 1998 for his contribution to the Health Services.

Keywords: WWI World War One First 1 Arras

Location of Project Material: Outside Scotland