Colin McPherson is a Scottish documentary photographer, born in 1964 in Edinburgh. He began working as a photographer in the late 1980s for newspapers and magazines in Edinburgh, and moved to north-west England in 2004. He is based in Liverpool.
For more than thirty-five years he has photographed news and features in the UK and abroad for papers including the Independent, the Independent on Sunday, The Guardian and The Times. He is a founding member of the Document Scotland collective. His long-term projects look at life in Scotland, from football to salmon net fishing. Catching the Tide: Salmon Net Fishing in Scotland (Dewi Lewis Publishing) brings together thirty years of work with the salmon net fishermen of the east coast.
His work has appeared in more than 30 solo and group exhibitions and is in the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland.
