Acknowledgements

Cover artist: Norman McBeath

Evidence, by Norman McBeath

This picture is one of a series of photographs from the exhibition 'Evidence', by Norman McBeath, shown at Edinburgh Printmakers in October 2006 with an introduction by A.L. Kennedy.

The photographs explore the traces of behaviour – the cuts, stains, smears and abrasions left in the wake of printmaking – "the ruin, and the wonder that our creativity and curiosity leave behind" (A.L. Kennedy).

Norman McBeath is an independent photographer and printmaker based in Edinburgh. The National Portrait Galleries in London and Edinburgh have fifty of his portraits in their permanent collections. He has recently had work showing in the Leica Gallery in New York and the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh; and a solo exhibition, Oxford at Night at The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford – the first exhibition by a living photographer in the museum's history. A book Oxford at Night (Easel Press) was published to coincide with the exhibition with an introduction by Jeanette Winterson.

To contact the artist, email: Norman McBeath

› www.normanmcbeath.com

Prints are available from Edinburgh Printmakers:
› www.edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk

Best Scottish Poems 2006 funded by