THE controversial “We love the Highland Clearances” image which sparked offence when it was used on a hotel chain’s website was provided by…
The controversial 'We love the Highland Clearances' image was provided by the Visit Scotland public body
A screenshot from the Address Collective's Glasgow website showing the controversial 'We [love] the Highland Clearances' imageThis paper was later told that the image had been sourced from Visit Scotland, which provides a free media database to be used for commercial purposes. The photo in question showed a part of an artwork called “We love real life Scotland” by visual artist Professor Ross Sinclair, which was displayed at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art in 2015 and 2016.
A spokesperson for Visit Scotland said that the image on their database included context that was crucial and should have been kept in place when it was reused.
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