Working primarily in medium format photography, I run a darkroom and workshop space, Island Darkroom, on the Isle of Lewis. With projects spanning from the Faroe Islands, Chilean Patagonia and Lewis itself, my work explores landscapes with focus on evidence of human interaction. 

Biography

Mhairi Law (born Scottish Borders 1991) lives and works on the Isle of Lewis. She studied photography, film and television at Stevenson College (now Edinburgh College) in 2009. Graduating with Honours from the Photography and Film course at Edinburgh Napier in July 2014, she went on to undertake a year-long residency with Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh. After exhibiting at the Free Range shows in London and An Lanntair Arts Centre in Stornoway, in November 2015 she was awarded first prize at the Jill Todd Photographic Award. In June 2016 she undertook a month-long artists residency to the Faroe Islands, exhibiting the resulting work with Stills gallery as part of their 40^th year events in the Pathfoot building at Stirling University. In 2018, Mhairi established Island Darkroom, a photographic dakroom and workshop space on the Isle of Lewis. 

Recent commissioned work includes a poetic and photographic mapping of the Braemar region, Gathering, alongside poet and artist, Alec Finlay and commissioned by Hauser and Wirth. 

Her photographic project, The Darkest Dawn was commissioned by and exhibited at An Lanntair Arts Centre as part of the commemorative events for the centenary of the Iolaire disaster. 

Her work has been featured in the Island Review, Of the Land and Us photography blog and SSHoP (Scottish Society for the History of Photography) magazine.