Forty years ago, French photographer Raymond Depardon was commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine to travel to Glasgow for a feature on its rich and poor. The photos he took were never published. Instead, his bleak but sympathetic depictions of people living among urban deprivation and decay languished in Depardon's archives for more than three decades until dusted off for an exhibition and a book in 2016. The photos, taken during trips in autumn 1980 and the following spring, are now hailed as a unique and outstanding photographic record of a Glasgow that has largely disappeared.
