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In 2006, Alicia Bruce had just graduated from university, when a story in her local newspaper caught her attention. A celebrity property tycoon from the USA, a certain Donald Trump, had announced that he was planning to build “the greatest golf course in the world” in Menie, Aberdeenshire – a stone’s throw away from where she grew up and would play as a child.“What really shocked me was the fanfare from the local press. They were rolling out the red carpet for him,” Bruce recalls. “Many local residents were vilified, they were called ‘peasants’ and ‘pigs’ – they were thrust into the media against their will. I couldn’t quite believe what I was reading because it seemed like an empty promise.”
With its lush greenery, brushing the ocean location and moving dunes, Menie was a particularly beautiful and special patch of nature on the Scottish east coast. But it was also a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) – the same designation granted to the Amazon Rainforest – and the idea that the area would be developed was unthinkable to many who had lived in the area their whole lives.
After planning permission was originally rejected by the local council, the decision was overturned by then MSP for Menie Alex Salmond. Construction would begin in 2013, and called the Trump International Scotland golf course – it stands today as an 18-hole, 500-hectare, money haemorrhaging scar on the former natural beauty hotspot.
Seeing the environmental damage and now stripped of its conservation status, Bruce began travelling to the northeast coast to document its impact on Menie’s landscape and locals – making portraits of residents, who resisted in the face of compulsory purchase orders for their homes and land and refused to pack up and leave. Now, ten years after the course first opened in 2013, those pictures are presented in her soon-to-be-published photobook 'I Burn But I Am Not Consumed'.
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- I worked with a client to help them buy it before trump. Drew up the plans for housing, etc., kinda wild that it's so famous now.formed
- Some of the stuff he got up to there was total cunt levels. Cutting off that elderly woman's water and constantly harrassing her.PhanLo