JUST under a year ago, The Herald ran an article on the work of Brian Anderson, a Glasgow photographer of many years' standing.

He runs Glasgow Eyes, a popular monthly website that teems with black-and-white, reportage photographs of the city at work and play - and, now and then, rolling around at 3am on a Queen Street pavement in a fight over a kebab.

Next month, Glasgow Eyes, in actual magazine format, goes on sale in the shops. It has been, to use an overworked phrase, a labour of love for Anderson.

His aims are simple: to emphasise the "craft of pure photography" at a time when the profession is in "ever increasing decline" and to document Glasgow in all its forms.

Glasgow Eyes - online or in magazine format - takes as its guiding spirit such fabled magazines as Picture Post and Life magazine. Its subjects range far and wide: a St Patrick's Day celebration, backstage at Zippo's circus, a CND march in George Square, a beauty pageant in a Glasgow pub. And night-time scenes galore: a masked young woman posing on the ledge of a cash machine in Royal Exchange Square, men in Spiderman costumes, a bloke having a cigarette break outside the Blue Lagoon.

Eleven months ago, when we publicised an exhibition of Brian's work, he said of his hometown: "It's a beautiful city, with a lot of characters, and the exhibition is is my take on Glasgow."

Nothing he has seen between since has altered his view. "Glasgow is an amazing city, it's famed for its people and its architecture, among other things," he told me yesterday. "I'm trying to combine everything - showing the city at night, showing the people, documenting the city in all its forms.

"I like the occasional wackiness and rawness as well. The city reminds me of places like New York or Chicago at night.

"I've got pictures of guys dressed as Batman on Hallowe'en, and pictures of people rolling around on the pavement at three in the morning. It has got to the stage now where the police are saying I should go out with them, just me and my camera. I might just take them up on that and see what happens.

"They've got a tough job to do and it will be interesting to go out on the firing line with them."

Brian has a book coming out next month, showcasing 25 years' worth of pictures. Not bad for someone who got into the craft via a spell at Cranhill Arts Project.