MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

“Stunning” Falklands Photographs

An exhibition of Falkland Islands photographs by the wildlife expert and artist, Ian Strange, and his daughter, Georgina, on view at the London Falklands Government Office has been praised by the new Governor, Mr Howard Pearce.

"These", he said, "are absolutely beautiful, stunning photographs? which show that ..the Falklands are a very special place".

Mr Pearce recalled buying three of Ian Strange's prints when they first met in the 1970s. "The prints", he said, "have followed me around the world, hanging on various walls in the United Kingdom, in Kenya. Hungary and Malta, and I look forward to taking them back to the Falklands where they came from and again meeting Ian Strange".

He was speaking at a reception at the London office where the photographs are on view for three and a half months until January 31st. The Falklands Government London Representative, Sukey Cameron, said: "We are delighted to have these wonderful pictures on display by father and daughter team Ian and Georgina Strange".

Most of the photographs are of New Island, where the Duke of York recently opened a Scientific Field Station for the New Island South Conservation Trust, founded by Ian Strange.

Among guests at the reception where two Trustees of the New Island South Conservation Trust, former Royal Navy Captain Peter Erskine, who served in the Falklands as senior naval officer in 1983 and 1984, and Jeffrey Mills, a former teacher at Darwin School from 1968 to 1971, who has known Ian Strange for more than 35 years.

Also there was the secretary of the Trust, Mrs Jones-Parry, Captain Erskine's daughter, and Gillian Walker, from Sussex, a scientist who worked with Ian Strange on New Island for three consecutive summers, and now works on an Antarctic cruise ship.

Harold Briley, London

Some of Ian and Georgina's photographic work can be seen on www.designinnature.com