How do we live with our differences in today’s social climate?
Get Me explores notions of identity, belonging and otherness in the rural community where I now live. The project began as a response to my teenage daughter’s experience of racist abuse among her peers here in the Scottish Highlands.
Through collaborative portraiture and engagement with local young people I look to understand what it’s like to grow up here. What shapes teen identity and what if they sit outside the conventional standard.
In a time when divisive rhetoric dominates the media, I find a group of creative and socially engaged teenagers redefining the profiles of highland youth culture.
Profoundly connected to their environment yet not bound by it, they paint a picture of optimistic possibility and hope for our future social landscape.
This is a portrait of them and a reflection on my own role in the storytelling process, how my encounters with them have shaped my perspective on identity and what it means to belong.
Isla (from the series ‘Get Me’), 2025
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Isla’s Selfies (from the series ‘Get Me’), 2025
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Freya’s Room (from the series ‘Get Me’), 2025
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Freya’s Journal Entry (from the series ‘Get Me’), 2025
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James in his Room, with Journal Entry
(from the series ‘Get Me’), 2025
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James’s Selfies (from the series ‘Get Me’), 2025
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