Students at Gordonstoun school in Moray have teamed up with award-winning Scottish photographer David Gilliver to create miniature dioramas featuring tiny figures and props, including cans of Irn-Bru. Using macro photography techniques, the pupils produced a series of extreme close-up images.
One scene shows a can of Irn-Bru with its ring pull used as a basketball hoop, while another depicts the fizzy drink as a river for canoeists. Other images include figures climbing a cheese grater and teeing off on top of a tennis ball.
Gilliver, who won the Macro prize at the 2022 British Photography Awards, led a two-day workshop for students aged 14 to 18. He praised their creativity, saying: “The students got into the creative zone right from the off and I think I saw at least a dozen or so new concepts.”
The artist explained that his own work blends serious themes with surreal imagination. “I’ve done some things like climate change, plastic pollution, some serious things like that, as well as some ridiculously surreal and fun scenes,” he said.
Student Hector Munro, 15, said: “I enjoyed that you can be very creative with the artwork and creating the scenes.” Florence Wareing, 16, added: “David was really inspiring, and I really want to explore this in my own projects now.”
Gordonstoun, attended by King Charles III and his father Prince Philip, was founded in 1934 by German educator Dr Kurt Hahn, who fled Nazi Germany with British help.
