Adrian Brannan has always had photography running through his veins. His father was a photographer and Brannan remembers his interest in the art form being stirred around the time he started primary school.

"I was always borrowing his gear," he recalls. The son, however, did not want to step directly into the father's shoes. "He was doing all the stuff I didn't want to do, weddings, family portraits..." he laughs as he reflects on a time when he was searching for a direction for his art.

It was a simple assignment to photograph a building at Glasgow School of Art that gave Brannan, 27, the inspiration for his unique brand of photograph collage.

"The idea came to me when trying to photograph the Mackintosh building," he explained. "Around the Glasgow School of Art the streets are too narrow and the building is too wide, so you never really get a proper impression. I stood across the other side of the street and took hundreds of photographs and then pieced them all together. I thought this produced a more relevant image."

It was a seminal moment in his career. He had found his direction, an imaginative lens on the world which would shape his future art. Having graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2000, Brannan began to develop his techniques and methods. Soon he was producing multi-image compositions of cityscapes and the surrounding architecture.

Today, his multiple photograhic art has developed into startling multi-layered collages, and he is generating a growing reputation as an innovative and exciting imagemaker.

But Brannan, the artist, is a decidely curious creature. He is meticulous, and one could say, artistically obsessive. For example, he is keen to point out that he has yet to sign up for the digital revolution and is somewhat scathing of the new breed of multi-pixel photographers.

"I don't at all use digital cameras," he says candidly. "I use film for everything. With digital cameras you can play about with the image and too many people with digital photography can cover up their mistakes. People don't look like themselves when they are airbrushed."

His preference is for manual manipulation of his photographic images. He is, in this sense, dependant on his own creative abilities and the techniques he has developed to conjure up the finished image.

The results are remarkable. They are engagingly colourful creations imbued with a sense of movement, time and shades of light in a determinedly self-conscious and unique fashion. There is a freshness and vibrancy about Brannan's work which somehow draws the eye to a myriad of possibilities, to a different perspective that is compelling.

"Rather than try to capture the more staid, flatter and typical architectural photograph...I try to get the 'bigger picture' of the place. I'll go back to the same spot, though the time, date, weather conditions and light might change. I might do this for up to two years."

He has also been known to use different lenses to photograph one particular cityscape or piece of architecture, and this can mean that the completed image can appear distorted.

"I'm not trying to stylise it," he says of his methods, sounding defensive. "But things that you wouldn't notice can be brought out using multiple photographic techniques in one single image."

Brannan is also quick to point that "taking photographs is only a quarter of the job." The vast majority of the time - the other three-quarters - is spent organising the images. The enormous number of photographs taken, and this can mean anything from 50 to 1000 images, are layered into three dimensional models of the cityscape or achitecture to be portrayed.

Brannan's complex multi-image compositions of cities like Glasgow and London have brought him a growing audience of admirers. He has been commissioned to photograph in Barcelona and Lucerne, Switzerland and his creations can also be found on the walls of several commercial establishments. These include Starbucks in London and The Coffee Merchants in Glasgow as well as Glasgow University library.

Not yet 30, Adrian Brannan is a determined individual. He has a vision of conquering London and the Scottish capital. "I think London should be my next step for showing and selling my pictures...and Edinburgh."

His voice tails off as he considers his future- perhaps as one of the leading photographers of his generation. For Brannan is an ambitious man, and there is a touch of arrogance in his determination. Not the obnoxious kind where the artist becomes egotistical to the point of being insufferable, but the kind of arrogance that emerges when someone is good and they know it.

A few minutes later and he has gone. He has work to do and more ideas to capture in multi-image visions.

Adrian Brannan's work can be seen on his website. Click here