As a cold and slow January ends, I feel it is time for some change...   After working in web design & the digital space for over 28 years, I...

Colin is co-founder of Studio Faire creative residency in Nérac, South West France. Situated in Gascogny.Studio Faire is a contemporary arts space...

'Just went live with a new website for Scottish poet and non-fiction writer Kathleen Jamie. Working with her own handwriting to create slideshows...

I have had the pleasure of working with the team at Museums and Heritage Highland on a new website to promote museums in the highlands of Scotland....

I've spent a few months working with the artist Brigid Collins on her new site. This has been a very welcome activity in these strange pandemic...

... we hope! Happy New Year to you and best of fortune and health for the coming year. Although it was a very strange 2020, myself & Julia had a...

Learning to play the banjo has been a real eye opener during this second lockdown.   As a life-long drummer, I never grasped the form of scales and...

WAVEBACK Project I’ve been toying with this concept for a few years now, trying to decide how to share some important moments in my life to try and...

You can take our lives but you'll never take our freedom! Well, actually, a forced lockdown here in France was almost total revocation of our...

We've just begun our third year here at Studio Faire in Nérac, South West France. The 4 month break over the winter gave us time to reset, renovate,...

The first Saturday of 2020 saw me welcoming Stephanie and her two daughters ; Clementine & Isla here at Studio Faire for a day of photography...

Wishing you all a prosperous and safe new year. We've had a great year here in Nérac. Studio Faire creative retreat goes from strength to strength....

'Building castles in the air' : It's hardly been a daydream this past year or so. I've been incredibly busy (and lucky) shooting some pretty damn...

Welcome to the New Year here in Nérac, South West FranceWe're having just a slight breather before we embark on a very busy year ahead.   ...

What a summer it's been, already! There's few more months of sun and laughter to come. Studio Faire has flourished massively in this, our first year...

We've launched the Studio Faire Photography School, here in Nérac. I'm running courses on getting to know your camera and having the...

I'm starting to teach, here at Studio Faire in Nérac. My course is called "Mastering Portraiture with Colin Usher, An inspiring...

I recently acquired a camera drone. Not just any camera drone, I have the DJI SPARK! Having longed to purchase a product from DJI over...

Stills, on a wall, in a gallery.... in FRANCE! So happy to announce that I have my first ever exhibition hanging in France. My show: CHUTES! is...

We've been 'townies' for 6 weeks now! I must admit, living in the town is a welcome change to rural life. Back in Scotland, we lived in a small...

Last week, on the 30th March, 2017, we completed and signed for our new house & studios.

Two weeks into our new life here in South West France, there was a Fête des fraises in our village of Francescas. We plucked up the courage and...

This is how a bunch of accountants should look! A lovely bunch they are too…

This summer, Elloise Bennett got in touch regarding shooting her chambres d’hôtes in Nérac for publicity purposes.

Recently I was commissioned by investigative journalist Kate Mead to go shoot a very rare painting near Bordeaux that had been discovered by Stephen Hibberts.

We have lived in the Lot-et-Garonne in South West France for over 4 months now.

We have lived in the Lot-et-Garonne in South West France for over a month now.

WE ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT HERE!

Lindsey Lavender is a fantastic painter. Her work ‘examines the urban environment seeking simple, overlooked observations with a fascination for the mundane but necessary’.

I spent a great few hours in my wee studio in Barrel Cottage photographing Rachel McCrum, the poet.

Rachel won our Studio Faire competition for a FREE photo shoot. We’re pretty glad she won.

I recently had the privilege of spending a few hours shooting students at Performing Arts Studio Scotland (PASS) at Edinburgh College.

This weekend saw me hanging out with the lovely team at Haddington’s Waterside Bistro.

In July 2015, I decided to get back into my original passion… photography, I started experimenting with flash kits, locations, portraiture and corporate mug shots.

Angela Hahn, clinical massage therapist and acupuncturist, recently moved back to Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada to set up her very own practice.

Ailsa Proverbs invited me to work with her on an editorial piece with her in her kitchen to help promote her products at The Big Cheese Making Kit.

I spend a good bit of my time working with mobile technology innovators, QikServe.

Recently, I was invited to shoot old pal Martin Metcalfe to promote his upcoming gigs with his band Metcalfe & the Fornicators.