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What's gone before at Studies in Photography
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Studies Festive Exhibition
We are delighted to end the year with a mixed show featuring 19 incredible artists:
Victor Albrow, Jane Brettle, Constanza Dessain, Robin Gillanders, Jennifer Gough-Cooper, Alexander Hamilton, Sheila Masson, Norman McBeath, Jaime Molina, John Perivolaris, Ron O’Donnell, Diana Sosnowska, Oana Stanciu, Iain Stewart, Andy Wiener, David Williams, Graham Williams.
Sat 15th Nov - Sat 20th Dec 2025
Free admission
conference
SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES, Scotland’s Urban Architecture through the Lens
Organised by Studies in Photography, the conference will explore how photography has shaped and recorded the urban architectural heritage of Scotland.
5 November, National Library of Scotland
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New Contemporaries 2
The New Contemporaries exhibition is an ongoing segment from our journal which features three new and emerging artists in photography both in Scotland and internationally. In this feature we are exhibiting works from Laetitia Heisler, Gabriela Pieniążek and Graham Williams.
Fri 5th Sep -Sat 8th Nov 2025
Free admission
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PhotoDalkeith 2025
PhotoDalkeith returns for its second year at Dalkeith Palace. Celebrate the art of photography with us once again as we showcase a selection of works by some of the most distinguished contemporary photographers.
Open weekly, Friday to Sunday.
Sat 30th August - Sun 5th October 2025
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Afterimage: Sylwia Kowalczyk
Studies in Photography is pleased to present Afterimage, a striking new solo exhibition by Edinburgh-based Polish artist Sylwia Kowalczyk. Curated by independent photography curator Alexander Moore. It is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and forms part of the British Council’s UK/Poland Season 2025, aligning with the Edinburgh International Festival’s “The Truth We Seek” focus on Poland.
FREE ENTRY
Thurs 31st July - Sat 30th August 2025.
Exhibition opening: 30th July at 6pm
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The Killing Time
Iain Stewart
Presenting the latest exhibition and publication by Iain Stewart. The Killing Time documents Galloway's landscape and dark history, through personal connections to the stories of the Solway Martyrs and the Covenanters.
FREE ENTRY
Fri 13th June - Sat 19th July 2025
Book Launch: 14th June 2025
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New Contemporaries
Tayo Adekunle, Eoin Carey, Tiu Makkonen
This group exhibition hosts three artists who were featured in our last Winter Journal. Each artist will exhibit a series of portraits from their previous bodies of work which explore contemporary ways of seeing, self-identification, acceptance, and identity.
Fri 9th May - Sat 7th June
Studies Day: 6th June 2025 at 4pm
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Exceptional Subjects
Norman McBeath & Melissa McCarthy
Introducing a new body of work by photographer and printmaker Norman McBeath RSA, in collaboration with the writer Melissa McCarthy.
Sat 5th April - Sat 3rd May 2025
Studies Day: 12th April
EXHIBITION
Joseph McKenzie: Father of Modern Scottish Photography
A celebration of Joseph McKenzie's work. This exhibiton features vintage and platinum prints dating between 1948-1970 in London and Scotland, including prints from McKenzie's important social study of the Glasgow Gorbals Children.
Fri 28th February - Sat 29th March 2025
Study Day: 19th March 2025
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John Thomson in China
Our first exhibition of the year, featuring images from legendary Scottish photographer John Thomson (1837-1921).
Weds 29th January - Sun 23rd February
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Another Weeping Woman - Diana Sosnowska
The first major UK exhibition of Scotland trained, US based photographer Diana Sosnowska.
Sat 13th July - Sun 28th July 2024
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Robin Gillanders and Little Sparta
The exhibition presents important
photographs made at Little Sparta, the garden of artist/poet Ian Hamilton Finlay and collaborations with him, undertaken by Robin Gillanders between 1993 until Finlay’s death in 2006
Sat 6th April - Friday 26th April 2024
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Dreaming Difference: Exhibition
A retrospective of the work of acclaimed photographer David Williams.
Sat 3rd Feb - Sat 17th Feb 2024
The Film of the Sound and Vision of Dreaming Difference
The Film of the Sound and Vision of Dreaming Difference
To book a place at our Studies Day and evening reception, hosted on the 6th of June 2025, please visit our Eventbrite for tickets and more information.
9th May - 7th June
Announcing our spring group exhibition, which hosts three artists who were featured in our last Winter Journal. Each artist will exhibit a series of portraits from their previous bodies of work which explore contemporary ways of seeing, self-identification, acceptance, and identity.
Tayo Adekunle
Tayo Adekunle (b. 1997) is a Nigerian-British visual artist from West Yorkshire, based in London.
Using predominantly portraiture and self-portraiture, Her work explores issues surrounding race, gender and sexuality. In an interrogation of racial and colonial history, her work is centred around reworking tropes and narratives about black people and black culture. Tayo received her BA(Hons) in Photography at Edinburgh College of Art in 2020. Since then she has been an artist in residence at institutions around the UK including the Southbank Center in London, Leeds Playhouse in Leeds, Hospitalfield in Arbroath, Dundee and Edinburgh Printmakers in Edinburgh.
Tayo will be showing images from two bodies of work. Reclamation of the Exposition (2020) explores the commodification, fetishization and sexualisation of the black women’s bodies. In comparison, Yemoja (2021) acts as a negotiation of painful histories while also representing a celebration of connection with cultural history.
Eoin Carey
Eoin Carey is an Irish portrait and documentary photographer based in Glasgow. He has worked across the design, visual and performing arts sectors in Scotland for 15 years, documenting and creating photographic work with artists and national organisations. His colourful portrait work includes artists from disciplines across performance, film, visual art, design and music. His work is regularly published in national media and editorial publications.
Father is a photographic series and publication by photographer Eoin Carey that focuses on the tender and tired routines of everyday parenthood. Created over two years with participants from Glasgow and Edinburgh, Father documents unstaged, candid moments of fathers with their children.
Tiu Makkonen
Tiu Makkonen (b.1989) is a queer immigrant artist and photographer originally from Finland. Since moving to Scotland in 2009, her work has developed from personal reflections on identity and queerness to documenting the LGBTI+ scene in Scotland at large. Using both analogue and digital formats, her work ranges from fine art portraiture projects addressing visibility, representation and empowerment to documentary work shooting underground queer raves, art festivals and national gender equality campaigns. The ethos underpinning her work is a desire to bolster the community from within, like a two-way mirror: to have us be seen, but also to really see ourselves, full of fierce love and radical vulnerability.
Tiu Makkonen brings together images from two bodies of work, both featuring members of the Scottish LGBTI+ community who are over the age of 50. Letters to Ourselves (2017), the original project that sparked off these visual, intergenerational conversations; and Portraits of an LGBTI+ Generation (2021), a photo series made in connection with an LGBTI+ elders community engagement project with National Theatre of Scotland.
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China Through the Lens of John Thomson
As part of the John Thomson centenary celebrations of 2021 we are delighted to have been given the opportunity to present some beautifully created prints of his work.
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