Magnus Jackson

The exhibition featured a projected silhouette of Jackson describing, in his own words, the challenge of using wet-plate collodion photography.

[1] His father was a picture-frame maker, looking glass manufacturer, a restorer of oil paintings and a print seller.

After three years in the capital, he returned to Perth, where he established his own photography business in a wooden studio in Marshall Place,[2] on the site of today's St Leonard's-in-the-Fields Church,[1] overlooking the city's South Inch.

By 1884, his success was at its peak, allowing him the funds to construct new premises at 62 Princes Street,[2][4] a few yards to the north, adjacent to Greyfriars Burial Ground.

[2] In 1886, he was awarded the bronze medal and diploma of merit at the International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art in Edinburgh for his photographs of ferns and foxgloves.

In 1877, Jackson was elected a member of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science (PSNS),[1] a decade after its formation.

[2] In 1879, he was part of a committee charged with building the Perthshire Society of Natural Science Museum at today's 62–72 Tay Street.

[1] In 1887, he was a part of a committee that dealt with a boat carrying victims of cholera, and found a safe mooring place on the Tay that allowed the facilitation of treatment for and isolation of the patients.

[1] Two years before his death, in May 1889 he officially opened Perth's public swimming baths on Dunkeld Road.

[1] In his newspaper obituary, the Perthshire Constitutional noted that he was "known across Scotland as a first-rate landscape photographer".