Giles Croucher Photography

‘Revisiting Past Roads – Degrees of Memory’

 

Whilst clearing out some old books I came across T. Ratcliffe Barnetts’ The Road to Rannoch and the Summer Isles. This book, damaged during a flood in a library in Africa, was given to me twenty years ago whilst at Rannoch School, Scotland.

 

Barnett’s walking journal has been a treasured item in my travel collection ever since. Its images, upon re-reading, awoke memories thought lost or dormant, bringing them alive, making them as fresh as if they happened yesterday.

 

Barnett’s’ journey influenced my return to Rannoch, a place I called home for three years, in order to refresh my memories that I had forever associated with the landscape of the Highlands.  However, I found my memories and recollections only amounted to fragments of reality when confronted with the actuality of the place. 

 

Though the use of imagery and text, Revisiting Past Roads – Degrees of Memory is an attempt to bridge this gap between memory, landscape and experience.

 

Giles Croucher