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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
The Killing Time
Iain Stewart
13 June - 19 July 2025
Image credit: Let Earth and Stone Still Witness Bear, Iain Stewart
Purchase your copy of The Killing Time in our store
My family history in the South West of Scotland goes back ten generations - at least - and is deeply entwined with the troubled events of the late 17th Century - the Covenanters and the dark period known as The Killing Times. Researching my forebear John Milroy, one of the Lads of Kirkcalla - three men connected to the story of the Solway Martyrs - has taken me on an emotional journey through time, visiting & documenting locations and stories; and meeting other descendants. John, along with two other men, William Johnson and George Walker, shares a grave in Wigtown churchyard with Margaret Wilson and Margaret MacLaughlin, the Solway Martyrs, two women who were tied to wooden stakes and drowned in the Bladnoch River on May 11th 1685 for their refusal to swear the Oath of Abjuration. The three men were hanged later the same year, for the same reason. The images and writing are collected together in The Killing Time, a body of photographs and words set for publication and exhibition in June 2025. The photographs, lyrical and dark, document land and sea, river and woodland; the very sources of the Martyrs stories. Places these folk lived, worked, sought refuge - and ultimately died, for their beliefs. So many others died too. The making of this work has at times been deeply affecting; things that happened are seeped into the land and water and have not gone away; the stories are there, and need to be told.
Iain Stewart, May 2025
Artist's Biography
Iain Stewart was born in 1967. Working in Scotland, predominantly the Highlands, his landscape photography has explored relationships and connections with the natural environment for over 30 years. His LAND/SEA/SKY works have been exhibited and collected widely in UK/USA and European venues including the International Center of Photography, New York, the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, the National Galleries of Scotland, the Photographers’ Gallery, London, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Land, sea and sky act as metaphor in his work; a starting point for self-examination, learning and reflection. Images have often referenced painting - the abstract expressionists, German romanticism; quietly evoking stories or memories, conjuring moments of connection that are both personal and universal. Writing about his INNER SOUND project in 2020, Robert Macfarlane noted; ‘There's something original and ambitious at work here; a shard-like hard-cutting between image and place and text. Sometimes it's bewildering -- but then that's true of the places Stewart is fascinated by as well...’. In the foreword to The Killing Time, Scottish novelist James Robertson notes that ‘The story Iain tells is personal, communal and very Scottish, but it is also universal... wonderful, sombre images of present landscapes and waterscapes, haunted by people long departed from them, and they carry a warning: do not forget, and do not think that such things as happened here cannot happen again. ‘I can stand on what was their land and be thankful for the freedoms I have, and what has changed,’ Iain writes, ‘but I see too what has not changed, what we have not learned from the dark days of The Killing Times. The darkness is still there, around the world.’
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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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