For Year of Coasts and Waters 20/21 Street Level Photoworks are co-ordinating a series of exhibitions and events between July and October in various locations. To augment this we will…
‘GET COMFORTABLE WITH BEING UNCOMFORTABLE’ AND OTHER GEMS FROM TWO ISLAND ARTISTS ON A CREATIVE HIGH’ An Lanntair’s Artist Support Coordinator, Sandra Kennedy, recently enjoyed a…
In episode 169 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on rules on being an artist, making friends through photography, the importance of writing to photography and…
Margaret Watkins was a photographer of portraits and landscapes, still lifes, street scenes and works of early advertising and commercial designs. In the 1920s she was at the height of…
Gulabi Photo Based in Glasgow’s Southside, Gulabi is an independent photo lab offering a drop-off developing and scanning service for C-41 and black and white processing. Check…
What w’ Like Preview Event, featuring several artists including Dougie Wallace, Simon Murphy, Gav Robinson & more. The Kube Gallery
Simon Murphy discusses his project Govanhill. The Kube Gallery
Craig Easton in conversation with Stephen McCoy. Craig will be discussing his Desert Island Pics, sharing five images from other photographers that he has found inspirational and…
Stills – centre for photography in Edinburgh have been providing listening material on photography since the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown. The Photography Down The Line…
‘Families are important. They are the most important relationships we have. It is all too easy to idealise an image of family life; to set it up as a domestic utopia to which we…
Listen back to the Paper Camera podcast with photographer David Eustace, who discusses his latest project Thirty Two York Place. A study of the Senators of the College of Justice…
Sandy Carson discusses Passing Place. Featuring Stephen McLaren Passing Place is an intimate portrait of both Sandy Carson’s mother and the ex-mining village he grew up in the West of…
From article by National Galleries Scotland 26/02/2021 The term Purdah (“to curtain”) varies in meaning amongst particular South Asian and Arab cultures. It can refer…
A journey along the River Clyde estuary. Document Scotland speaks with photographer Michael Thomson, about his 10-year long project photographing the River Clyde estuary. Read the full…
Street Photography from Glasgow. ‘Donnie MacLean isn’t interested in holding your hand and gently persuading you that everything is going to be ok. Subtle isn’t usually…
Sophie Gerrard presents her ongoing work ‘The Flows’.This project examines the relationship we have with Europe’s largest blanket peat bog, located in Caithness in the far…
National Galleries of Scotland invited photographer Iain Stewart to select nine works submitted by members of the public for their ‘2020: Stories, Portraits, Visions’…
Despite all that 2020 has thrown at us, the Scottish photography community has continued showcasing some amazing projects, events and exhibitions. Before we move into a promising 2021,…
Street Level Online Online Events, Education & Archive ‘The Yeast in the Bread, Not the Icing on the Cake’ We create opportunities for members of the public to…
Since the beginning of April Sixbysix have provided online artist talks via Zoom, the first episode was Desert Island Pics with Adam Lee. The team have uploaded all of the artist talks…
Showing work from contemporary photographic portraiture, The Story Portrait asks the photographer to share a story behind one of their portraits. “This picture is of a colleague of…
Projectroom2020 is a collaborative online gallery project devised to support artists and makers in showing work during the public health crisis caused by Covid-19 and the need for…
As part of Street Level Photoworks continued commitment to make photography accessible to all, we have created this Introduction to Photography workbook, which can be downloaded for free here.
Stills School is an alternative photography school for 16-25 year olds who face barriers to participating in the arts. Week one is on the Stills School Vimeo channel right now.…
Another Place Press is a small independent publisher showcasing contemporary landscape photography. Check out their blog with regular features and interviews.
The MacKinnon Collection of Scottish photography was recently acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland and is shared by both institutions. In…
Arpita Shah discusses her exhibition Nalini ‘Nalini’ was shown at Impressions Gallery from 17 January to 28 March 2020 and is a Street Level Photoworks touring exhibition. 40…
Produced to coincide with Street Level Photowork’s Oscar Marzaroli retrospective this short AV work features poignant narration by Marie-Clare Marzaroli sharing recollections of her…
Photography Down The Line is a new podcast from Stills, Edinburgh. A weekly series of conversations between artists, photographers and the Director of Stills. Started during the time of…
An edited recording of a livestream artist talk with Frank McElhinney, followed by a Q+A with Street Level director Malcolm Dickson. Only for Freedom is a project combining a…
Thomas Annan was the preeminent photographer of Glasgow in the mid-nineteenth century, a period when the rise in industry and population dramatically altered the landscape of the “second…
Document Scotland is a collaboration between Colin McPherson, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, Sophie Gerrard and Stephen McLaren. Their aim – “to make work and engage in a discourse which will…
Did you know that Scotland has had a Season of Photography since 2015? Illuminating the wealth of activity around photography in Scotland, the Season encompasses exhibitions at the main…
Writing on Scottish Photography is a blog by photographer Frank McElhinney in which he reviews photographic exhibitions, photo books and shares insights into fellow photographer’s works…
FLOW Photofest is an international festival celebrating photography in all its forms held biennially across the north of Scotland. Between festivals, exhibitions continue on the FLOW…
The Scottish Society for the History of Photography organises lectures, workshops, visits to private collections, launch events and exhibitions. The Society also publishes a bi-annual…
The University of St Andrews has been collecting photography since 1844. The University Library now holds about a million photographs, which are found in manuscript collections, the…
