Scottish Photographer Roddy Mackay first developed an interest in Photography back in 1997 but it wasn�t until he was living in London some five years later that his fascination with the captured image really took off.

After his return to Scotland in 2004, Roddy soon began working in a leading Glasgow Portrait Studio while spending his spare time taking personal images and gaining work experience alongside some of Scotland�s leading press photographers at The Glasgow Herald and Sunday Herald.

His later freelance work for some of Scotland�s leading Broadsheet newspapers saw him shortlisted for the title of Scottish Young Photographer of the year in April 2006, followed by consecutive nominations in 2007 and 2008.

In that same month, Roddy made his first international photography trip to China to work on documenting some of the transformation affecting Beijing ahead of it�s preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games in addition to documenting some of China�s 55 ethnic minority people groups in the south of the country.

His images from his projects �Building Beijing� and �Where The Streets Have No Name� gained him merit from his college tutors and upon graduating just a few months later, Roddy was presented with the Metropolitan College Principals Prize for Best Performing Student in The School Of Communication and Media.

By this point in time Roddy was already working on his first commissioned exhibition project, commissioned by St Mungo�s Museum to document Glasgow�s Growing African and Caribbean community for the 200-year anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.

�A Glasgow Story� opened to the public for a four-month solo exhibition in March 2007 and received positive feedback both from the community and Regional and National Media. The Guardian newspaper listed the exhibition as one of it�s top ten things to see with your weekend.

A selection of some of Roddy�s images from A Glasgow Story made up his portfolio entry to the 59th