Ross Gillespie & Tricia Malley
among Scotland’s most experienced and insightful photographers.
They have worked together for almost 20 years under the name of
broad daylight and have an instinctive eye for capturing the character
and personality behind their subject.
Tricia’s background as a documentary photographer combined
with Ross’s background as an illustrator has created an almost unique
collaboration which allows art to frequently and successfully mimic
life in a seriously powerful fashion. Most notably, their attraction
to Scotland’s gritty underbelly had led them to be commissioned
to do the evocative front covers for Ian Rankin’s Rebus novels and
they have also produced three major portraiture projects featuring
some of Scotland’s most influential power brokers.
They have an enormous capacity for empathy with their subjects
and as a result get well below the superficial. As a result, their portraits
tell more than just the immediate story and their work is held by the
Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery
in London.
