In life “nothing is constant except for change”, according to David Eustace, the fashion photographer turned conceptual artist, whose extraordinary festival show opens soon in Edinburgh.
Eustace should know. His life, it seems, is defined by transitions. Brought up in Glasgow’s East End, in his late teens he was a recruit on a Royal Navy minesweeper. At 21 he had joined the Prison Service but ten years later he had become a portrait photographer at GQ and Vogue and by his 40s his talent had taken him to New York.
A decade ago he returned to Scotland to take up a professorship, and now at 61, well, “something is bound to happen,” he said.
His latest happening is in the magnificent neoclassical Signet Library where