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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
EXHIBITION
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
Norman McBeath: Exceptional Subjects
5th April - 3rd May 2025
Image credit: Norman McBeath, Exceptional Subjects V, Exceptional Subjects
Announcing our exhibition of new work by the photographer and printmaker Norman McBeath RSA, in collaboration with the writer Melissa McCarthy.
The way our perception flexes and makes new meanings depending on the circumstance is a phenomenon that Norman McBeath explores in this work. In 'Exceptional Subjects' he has made a photographic study of items selected from a private collection built up over a number of years. While the objects are all connected to the process of looking - with many linked to the early stages of photography - they are no longer tied by their name or defined by context. They become subjects in their own right.
The theme of perception also underpins Melissa McCarthy’s lateral and imaginative responses to the photographs, 'Back in Time and Round in Circles' in the editioned set and 'Delta, Ditto, Darkness' in the Artists' Book. She considers objects in a new light, exploring changing senses of perspective and distance - whether stepping back in time or voyaging far away.
Artist's Biography
Norman McBeath is a photographer and printmaker. His work is guided by an interest in the individual and our immediate environment, in particular the often overlooked elements of the commonplace. His portraits are held in the National Portrait Galleries in London, Edinburgh and Canberra. Collections which have acquired his work include the British Library, National Library of Scotland, Harvard University of Texas, Emory University, Special Collections University of Edinburgh and University of St Andrews, Fitzwilliam Museum, Royal Scottish Academy and Yale Center for British Art.
His previous major work was Perdendosi, in a collaboration with Edmund de Waal (2021). In 2021 he was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Academy.
Author's Biography
Melissa McCarthy is a writer, looking at the places where literature, images, and history swirl together. Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro (Sagging Meniscus, 2023) considers flowers, photography, and explosions. Sharks, Death, Surfers: An Illustrated Companion (Sternberg, 2019) examines the precarious balance between who’s moving over the face of the water, and what’s lurking underneath.
She is interested in spoken as well as written story-telling: in her radio series, The Slipping Forecast and All That Flow, she thinks about friction and motion, and travel through time and space, over the airwaves. She lives in Edinburgh.
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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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