The Burns Side, A Hundred Year Collaboration
After Jamie’s Grandma, Norma, passed away, he discovered a collection of photographic negatives on 120 film, cut and stuffed into a box and an old Ilford photographic paper envelope. These negatives, some as old as 100 years, never seen before by living descendants.
After Jamie’s Grandma, Norma, passed away, he discovered a collection of photographic negatives on 120 film, cut and stuffed into a box and an old Ilford photographic paper envelope. These negatives, some as old as 100 years, never seen before by living descendants.
After Jamie’s Grandma, Norma, passed away, he discovered a collection of photographic negatives on 120 film, cut and stuffed into a box and an old Ilford photographic paper envelope.
Jamie has spent the last 2 years scanning, restoring and archiving these works. Some of these photographs date back to his Grandma’s time of working in photography in the 1960s, her 1940s youth and with many predating her birth as Jamie’s Great-Great-Grandfather Robert Burns captures 1920s and 30s Northumberland and Scotland.
Jamie Melville Ormston continuous to work on this archive and is inspired over and over as he continues a century-long collaboration, documenting Northumbrian and Scottish folk culture and landscape.
Love, in the last hour of struggle
An ongoing collaborative project with Ukrainian Photographer Maryna Khivrych, started in 2022, that shares the real stories & experiences of Ukrainians in London, fleeing war at home.
An ongoing collaborative project with Ukrainian Photographer Maryna Khivrych, started in 2022, that shares the real stories & experiences of Ukrainians in London, fleeing war at home.
The project title ‘Love, in the last hour of struggle’ is inspired by the poem ‘Shall We Ever Meet Again” by Ukrainian Poet Taras Shevchenko:
Mindfully of one another;
Love your dear Ukraine, adore her,
Love her . . . in fierce times of evil,
In the last dread hour of struggle,
Fervently beseech God for her.
