Portrait Photography at Mary Kings Close

In March I had the rare opportunity to photograph Mary Kings Close in Edinburgh. If you don’t know it, it’s an Edinburgh Street buried beneath the City Chambers. Now a tourist attraction and popular with all the “ghost hunters” that walk the old town. It’s very atmospheric and quite extraordinary to see such a well preserved example of the conditions people lived in. It’s completely dark down there so obviously extremely difficult for photography. I took models Fredau and Carmen with me and we used the unusual structure and lighting to try and create some atmospheric portraits – to good effect I think.