Photographs by Tom E Gray

11/02/2015

This gallery has been compiled to celebrate the award by Aberdeen University of an Honorary Degree to photographer Tom E Gray. It will be presented to him on Monday 16th February 2015, his 91st birthday. A navigator in Bomber Command in World War II, Tom left the RAF in 1947 and began a career in photography, initially photographing extensively in museums and galleries before moving to Kodak’s Professional Photography Division in 1960. His interest in history and archaeology had started as a school boy and Tom used his spare time to photograph various historic villages, buildings and industrial sites and to write articles for various magazines on everything from badgers, crafts to historic buildings. Early retirement in 1986 meant that Tom was able to travel across the country photographing Pictish stones and the quality of his work was soon recognised and sought after for publications. Tom’s collection is now digitised and available in Canmore. Known as the Tom and Sybil Gray Collection (named in memory of his wife) it spans a fifty year period from 1947 to 1998 and reflects the full range of Tom’s interests and his many talents.