A new book by Perthshire-based photographer and writer Jamie Grant charts his journey to one of the remotest corners of the earth.
Mixing images with travel writing, Summer in South Georgia is a tale of wildlife, conservation and adventure.
Jamie braved the high seas to take up the post of artist in residence for the Dundee-based South Georgia Heritage Trust (SGHT) between November 2015 and January this year.
He lived in the old whalers town of Gritviken and joined expeditions to remote peninsulas with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) staff from their base at King Edward Point.
“Nothing could have prepared me for the wonders of the Antarctic region,” said Jamie,46, who lives in Aberfeldy.
“I feel incredibly privileged not only to have travelled so far south but to get the chance to photograph so many remote locations that most visitors can’t reach.”
Summer in South Georgia, Jamie’s second book with Watermill Books in Aberfeldy, has been nominated for the Boardman Tasker prize for mountain literature and he is the winner of this year’s Mairi Hedderwick Travel Bursary for his travel writing.
An exhibition of the stunning images he took in South Georgia is on display at the Aberfeldy Watermill from Saturday to September 11.
“We are thrilled to be publishing Jamie Grant’s work from South Georgia following the success of Winter in Glen Lyon in 2014,” said Kevin Ramage, owner of Watermill Books. “He has captured in words and pictures the magic of an austral summer in one of the earth’s last true wildernesses.
“South Georgia is one of the world’s most spectacular places. Rising sheer out of the South Atlantic ocean, its hundred mile long mountain range is a geological outlier of the Andes.”
Howard Pearce CVO, chairman of the South Georgia Heritage Trust 2006 to 2016 said: “The magnificence of the scenery is matched by the wildlife – the island teems with fur and elephant seals, penguins and seabirds.
“I am delighted that Jamie was able to spend several weeks on South Georgia as SGHT’s artist in residence.”
