‘Fisherwomen’ is a photography project exploring and celebrating women working in the fishing industry. It connects the experiences of contemporary workers to the long tradition and heritage of the industry and it’s past. The project defies the traditional approach taken in the recording of the industry’s history by not focusing on the fisherman.

The project is told over three photographic chapters; the journey, the heritage and the portraits.

Using the traditional migration of the herring fleet from Shetland to Yarmouth as a vehicle to explore the role of women in what is wrongly considered by outsiders to be a predominantly male industry, Craig Easton’s photographs combine contemporary portraits, historical reflections and landscapes of the route to celebrate women's essential, but now mostly unseen, part of the fishing industry.

Visual Arts Officer Gill Ross says, ‘We are delighted that Craig chose to come to Montrose Museum & Art Gallery as the first stop in this exhibition which will tour around Scotland and England. Angus has a strong fishing heritage and there are many stories of Fisherwoman working on the shore preparing and packing the fish, as well as carrying the fishermen to their boats so they wouldn’t get their feet wet! I hope everyone can come in and learn more about this rich heritage as well as the contemporary Fisherwomen of today.”