The Romans used to call the country, which we know today, Scotland Caledonia. It was a strange and foreign land with dangerous and wild inhabitants at the Northern end of the Roman world. Two immense walls were built by the Roman emperors Hadrian and Antonius to secure Britain from the blue-painted warriors – or “Picts” – living in the northern lands. Also behind these barriers was a country of immense beauty and raw vastness.
In 2018, as in the years before, I had the chance to travel to Scotland for some weeks in August. It is one of these particular parts of the world that don’t cease to amaze and enchant through natural beauty, historical but lively cities like Edinburgh, and the general sense of tradition and heritage, which can be seen everywhere throughout the country. Follow me for a journey to the north!
Since 2014, I had the chance to visit Scotland many times. Recently, I had the opportunity to review the photography I shot there in 2014 and realized I had published just a few shots from this particular year. Still, there were exciting pictures left that I hadn’t uploaded yet. So before I post more recent photographs from Scotland from 2018, I wanted to go back in time and post more of these first formative impressions of Scotland. They are the reason I fell so much in love with this country.
Shot in New York City in April 2018.
The art déco style can be seen as a continuation of the art nouveau style or Jugentstil style, which increased in popularity in the Western World around WW I. Art deco formalizes the language of Jugentstil, gets more structured and formalized but retains some playful elements of art nouveau. The style was popular in New York at the beginning of the 1930s and can be seen in Manhattan – if one looks closely enough.
Looking Up in New York on a day in April 2018.
Michael Hoffman Photography 