The 2000 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.

The 2001 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.

The 2002 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.

The 2003 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.

The 2004 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.

The 3rd Liverpool Biennial, staged in 2004. The international festival of contemporary art stages events throughout Liverpool and runs from September 18 to November 2010. The 2008 event attracted 975,000 visitors and was the largest contemporary arts festival in the UK.

Action from FA Cup first round tie between Unibond Premier Division side Burscough (green) and Coca-Cola League One team Gillingham, at Victoria Park, which the Burscough won 3-2.

The 2005 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.

The 2006 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.

The International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) ceremony at the Hallam Arena in Sheffield for the annual IIFA awards. The awards were known as the 'Bollywood Oscars' and ran from 7-10th June. They were watched by an estimated global television audience 500 million people.

The 2008 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.

The 5th Liverpool Biennial, staged in 2008. The international festival of contemporary art stages events throughout Liverpool and runs from September 18 to November 2010. The 2008 event attracted 975,000 visitors and was the largest contemporary arts festival in the UK.

In 2008, Liverpool was European Capital of Culture with a year of cultural celebrations taking place across the city.

Artist and sculptor David Nash, pictured with his creation entitled "Ash Dome" near his home in Blaenau Ffestiniog, north Wales. "Ash Dome", planted as saplings in 1977, is now a mature dome centred on a plot of woodland, Nash's 'laboratory' for growing works and a place for thinking.

The 2009 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.

The 2010 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.

The 6th Liverpool Biennial, staged in 2010. The international festival of contemporary art stages events throughout Liverpool and runs from September 18 to November 2010. The 2008 event attracted 975,000 visitors and was the largest contemporary arts festival in the UK.

The 2011 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.

The 2012 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.

The 2013 Edinburgh Festival, comprising portraits and photographs of actors, authors, artists and musicians attending the annual event.

Writers, authors, journalists, critics, poets, playwrights... and photographers attend the 31st annual Edinburgh International Book Festival. Here is my collection of the best of this year's event in portraits.

Around 1600 pipers, dancers and other musicians from across the world took place in Pipefest Stirling, which was held in the city of Stirling in central Scotland to coincide with the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, which took place in the year 1314 in nearby Bannockburn.

The final of the iSessions, a competition run by the iPaper for bands from universities across the United Kingdom. The final was staged at Gorilla in Manchester and the winning band was Man Like Nells from the University of Westminster.

Scottish sculptor Andy Scott, pictured at his workshop in Maryhill, Glasgow, during the construction of his memorial sculpture to Scotland's steel men, which will be located at Ravenscraig, Lanarkshire in spring 2015.

Stockport band Blossoms, pictured in a scaffolders' yard in the town. The guitar pop band have come fourth on the BBC Sound of 2016 list, which highlights the hottest new acts for the new year. The five members, who were all born in the same Stockport hospital, formed in 2013 and have honed their sound by rehearsing in their bassist's granddad's scaffolding yard take their name from a local pub. The group are comprised of: Tom Ogden, vocals, Charlie Salt, bass, Josh Dewhurst , lead guitar, Joe Donovan, drums and Myles Kellock, keyboards.

British television screenwriter and director Russell T Davies, pictured in Manchester. Stephen Russell Davies, OBE (born 27 April 1963), is better known by his pen name Russell T Davies, is a Welsh television producer and screenwriter whose works include Queer as Folk, Bob & Rose, The Second Coming, Casanova, the 2005 revival of the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who, and the trilogy Cucumber, Tofu, and Banana. He is currently working on a BBC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, due to be released in 2016.

Features and portraits of artists, creative people, those who enrich our culture through the visual arts.

A compendium of authors, writers, poets, novelists and journalists photographed across the country and down the years.

A compendium of musicians photographed across the country and down the years.

A compendium of celebrities and stars photographed across the country and down the years.