The opening of the “NESS REMAINS” photography exhibition will take place on Friday 6th July at 7.30 pm at Comunn Eachdraidh Nis.   There will be an opportunity at this informal evening to meet Angus MacKintosh, the photographer and to view his work.

The 'Ness Remains' exhibition can be viewed in Comunn Eachdraidh Nis (Ness Historical Society), Isle of Lewis from Monday 9th July - Friday 31st August. The exhibition includes photographs, artefacts and survey drawings from recent archaeological survey work undertaken in Ness over the past 3 years. The Ness Archaeological Landscape Survey (NALS) is the survey element of the Dùn Èistean Archaeology Project (www.duneistean.org), and has attempted to record all the archaeological remains in Ness from the earliest times to 1950.

This year, professional photographer Angus Mackintosh was commissioned to work alongside the surveyors, in order to capture the archaeology work-in-progress, and the sites being recorded. Other elements of Ness were also photographed: the people, the artefacts and the landscape. From the hundreds of pictures he took, he has chosen twenty images that draw a relationship between the past remains and people in Ness today. A preview of these images can be viewed on his website (www.angusmackintosh.com). The commission has been supported by Highland 2007, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar and Western Isles Enterprise.

The exhibition also displays a set of aerial photographs taken by the RAF in 1946, which give an historical context to the Ness landscape, from a time when settlement patterns were changing in each township. Artefacts discovered from the survey work since 2005 are also on display, as are some of the 'tools of the trade', allowing visitors to see how the archaeologists interpret the finds they discover. The exhibition aims to put the archaeological remains into a modern perspective to show that they are not distant and forgotten, but part of a busy and inhabited landscape.

Tha sibh dì-beathte a thighinn feasgair Dihaoine a dh’fhaicinn nan dealbhan a chaidh a thogail aig àm na Càisge am bliadhna agus cuideachd na dealbhan a thog an RAF bhon adhar aig àm a’ chogaidh.  Chithear gu soilleir sna dealbhan sin togalaichean an airm agus an RAF a bha air feadh ceann a tuath Nis.

Further information:  English – Chris Barrowman 01851 810 112/07767343244

                                Gaelic – Annie Macsween 01851 810 696/01851 770459

                                Comunn Eachdraidh Nis – 01851 810 377