Dougie Wallace, also known as Glasweegee, [1] is a Scottish street photographer [2] from Glasgow, based in east London.
He has had five books of his work published and been awarded Second Prize in the Portraiture category of the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards. [3]
Wallace was born and raised in Glasgow. [4] He lived in Blackpool for a couple of years in the 1980s before enlisting in the army. [5] [6] He has lived in Shoreditch, east London, for 15 years. [4]
For two-and-a-half years beginning in October 2010 Wallace made 30 trips to Blackpool to complete his first book Stags, Hens & Bunnies: A Blackpool Story (2014), [4] [2] photographs of the stag and hen parties that visit the town, [7] "lads and lasses on their worst behaviour, partying away in a bawdy sea of L-plates, handcuffs, blow-up dolls and uniformed fancy dress", [8] "in various states of undress and drunkenness; revelling in bars, puking in the street, refuelling at chip shops." [6]
Wallace spent 15 years photographing in the Shoreditch area of East London, a series published in his second book, Shoreditch Wild Life (2014). [9] [10]
He photographed the disappearing Premier Padminis in Mumbai for his series Road Wallah. [11] [12]
Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, England, and is in northeast London and is part of the East End. It was historically in the county of Middlesex until 1889. It lies immediately northeast of the City of London financial district, and was once part of the civil parish and subsequent Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, prior to its incorporation into the London Borough of Hackney.
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