‘Coigach 1955’ - a photobook of the photography of Roderick Macleod

A4 landscape, spiral bound 30 pages, full colour, by Kevin Macleod

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In 1955, my father Roddie Macleod, a local Coigach man, turned his camera on the ways of life in his own remote home area. He photographed the locals, many of whom were his close relations, friends and neighbours who undertook the annual tasks of crofting, shepherding, salmon fishing and provided the necessary local services.

These fine images capture the timeless cycles of hard work on the sea and land, and the resulting album was carefully annotated with his personal commentary on the ways of the close knit community that had changed little in his lifetime. Now, some 60 years later, much of what was seen in 1955 has disappeared, so it seems fitting to reveal these photographs to shed some fresh light on the life in Coigach in those days.