Angie Catlin is an award-winning human rights photographer and documentarian born in Greendykes.

Her work has been featured in publications around the globe including the Guardian, Sunday Times Scotland, New York Times, and Al Jazeera, and focuses on humanitarian and social issues such as Iraqi refugees, the war torn Middle East and victims of torture. Her exhibitions, including “Natural Light: Portraits of Scottish Authors” in 1985, which accompanied a book of the same name launched at the Edinburgh Book Festival to exceptional reviews, have toured the UK, and she has won numerous awards, including twice recipient of the Scottish Photographer of the Year award, and four times winner of the Scottish/UK Feature Photo of the Year.

Additionally, she was one of the original photographers of the Craigmillar Community Festival in the 1970s. Initially part of a Job Creation Scheme, she entered the workforce as a photography trainee, kick-starting a career that would span nearly five decades. Her images of this event document a community exploring, expressing, and advocating for itself through arts, music, and drama, and are a vital and unique social record from this nationally and historically significant event.

In 2022, Craigmillar Now commissioned Angie to revisit the festival, documenting the events, the attendees, and the organisers over two days in August. These images capture the incredible community, diversity, and activity of Craigmillar and Niddrie, and are a dazzling record of the festival’s triumphant return after the Covid 19 pandemic.

Craigmillar Now currently holds some of Angie’s incredible photographs from the 1970s, as well as this new survey of the festival from 2022. These are currently being digitised for public access, and will be exhibited in 2023.

With thanks to The Craigmillar and Niddrie Festival Society, The Heritage Lottery Fund, and the people of Craigmillar.