A project capturing portraits of former lighthouse keepers by Scotland-based photographer Conor Gault. Gault’s grandfather was a lighthouse keeper in Scotland for over 30 years. He ended his career on Fair Isle South before the automation of Scottish lighthouses in the late 90s. “The Last Lighthouse Keepers of Scotland” is part of an attempt to research and depict tradition and culture through domestic (re)discovery as well as a personal effort to connect with his own family:

“The project focuses on capturing portraits of the former keepers and any immediate family, as I travel to the keepers’ homes and their old lighthouse stations to document them, their surroundings, their experience and memory of an extinct practice and distinct way of life, and find some echoes of the past in structures and stories.”