Photography Open Call: Year of Coasts and Waterways 2021 Got the photography skills to be part of a gallery exhibition? With the extended lockdowns due to the pandemic, the RGI would…
Open now to anyone over 16 born, living, studying in Scotland. Top prize £3,000. Touring exhibition for 30 shortlisted photographs. Online exhibition for 75+ longlisted photographs The…
Graduate Photography Online is Source’s annual showcase for Photographers graduating from University and Art College based photography courses. Since the project’s…
The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards is a major commissioning opportunity supporting early-career artists working with photography to make new work and significantly develop their practice.…
The Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award of £2,000, facilitated by FotoDocument and generously supported by Nikon UK, is granted annually to a professional woman photographer towards the…
Island Darkroom is calling upon all artists living and working throughout Scotland using the art of Analogue Photography within their professional creative practice. – The goal is…
Circus’ Graduate Associates is a development programme for emergent visual artists in the Highlands and Islands, Moray and Perthshire. This programme is delivered in partnership with…
A grant-making body supporting analogue photography and photographic art therapy… Photographic Art Therapy Grants – Photography is among the most accessible art forms used in…
Save the Date: FORMAT21: All Day Conference Friday 12th March 2021 FORMAT is delighted to be working with the University of Derby to present the FORMAT21 conference. Following on…
Photoworks are pleased to launch a new opportunity in collaboration with The Ampersand Foundation for a mid-career photographer living in the UK. The Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship will…
PhotoIreland Festival invites national and international artists and practitioners, including writers, researchers, curators, emerging and established, to propose works to be part of…
Shutter Hub We’ve been enjoying the Lunch Breaks so much, we’ve decided to make them a regular event. Nothing serious, this is an informal opportunity to connect and see what we can do…
ARE YOU AN EMERGING UK-BASED CURATOR LOOKING FOR A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT A PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT? This is your opportunity to develop a curated project that will be presented at…
We are deeply saddened by the news of Ellie, eldest daughter of Mark Morris, owner of A&M Imaging. You will have probably had the pleasure of working with Mark if you have used the…
Applications are now open for CONTACT, the first stage of Stills School, an alternative photography school for 16-25 year olds who face barriers to accessing the arts. Stills School is…
Please consider sending us your prose/essays, poems, images and artwork about Geopoetics generally and on the theme a sense of place, of belonging to a place and memories of place…
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,…
Robert Andrew is the winner of the 2020 Richard Coward Scottish Portrait Award in Photography. Robert spends part of every year working as a mountain path builder in some of Scotland’s…
ME, endometriosis, HIV, depression, transplantation…. How do we see chronic illness, particularly when it is not visible on the body? How are experiences of chronic illness affected by…
Scottish Portrait Awards 2020 The Scottish Portrait Awards returns to the Club with 60 artists and works selected for the 2020 exhibitions and shortlisted for prizes. The following…
Stills Academy Online provides the opportunity to develop your photographic practice with the assistance of Stills expertise. Over a 6-week period you will be supported by our tutors to…
Sekai Machache is the winner of this years RSA Morton Award. Machache’s work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self. Interested in the relationship between spirituality,…
Our new online courses offer a wide range of high-quality, subsidised training in all areas of photography and digital media. Stills’ tutors are experienced professionals from a variety…
It’s our 6th annual Photobook Fair and this year we are going digital and online. A big part of the photobook fair is supporting, promoting, and selling self-published photobooks by…
ffotogallery | Photography and Language Michal Iwanowski, Marcelo Brodsky, Alina Kisina Thursday 30th July at 6PM (via Zoom) Join ffotogallery (Cardiff) for this online discussion…
We are always looking for new writers to contribute to Source. If you’ve not written for Source before we invite you to send us an article. If we like it we will either publish it…
Stills Academy students are launching an online exhibition of their work this Friday, 17th July. The Academy started back in March when the young people taking part had just three weeks…
‘Moray: Wonderful Things’ M:ADE are very excited to announce this project, in partnership with ArtNorth and Projectroom2020. We are asking for members of the Moray community…
Postcards from Great Britain is a largescale project from Shutter Hub, inviting photographers to share their visions of British culture through photographic images and create…
A book of photographs taken on the island of Vatersay in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland over a period of 35 years. Paul Glazier & Bluecoat Press have recently launched a Kickstarter…
The Perch, a Yale creative arts journal with a broad mental health theme, announces its call for submissions for a special 2020 issue, in collaboration with the Mental Health Foundation…
Source is interested in seeing new previously unpublished projects for publication and has an open and ongoing submissions policy. We publish a variety of work but we would encourage you…
DOCUMENT SCOTLAND SEEKS SUPPORT TO CONTINUE MAKING AND SHOWCASING THE BEST OF SCOTTISH DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY Document Scotland is launching an initiative to continue the work they do…
from the series ‘The Guisers’ (2015 – 2019) © Margaret Mitchell GUISER, n. “in modern times one of a party of children who go in disguise from door to doorat various festivals,…
Our original EVERYDAY DELIGHT print exhibition was an amazing success, followed by EVERYDAY DELIGHT (Stay at Home Edition), where we created the most beautiful online exhibition. Now, to…
Applications for Satellites Programme 2021 are now open! Satellites Programme is the accelerated development programme which sits at the core of Collective. Through it, we aim to prepare…
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been thinking about how we can respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and we’re producing a new digital programme called Stories in Isolation to support local…
In This Day and Age inthisdayandage.org/symposium-imagining-an-island/ To coincide with our ‘work in progress’ exhibition at Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Art Gallery there will be a…
Every summer Visual Arts Scotland visit degree shows around Scotland. We look for emerging artists and designers whose work best exemplifies the fresh and dynamic approach to…
Life Under Lockdown – Seven micro-residencies for visual artists Tonic Arts is seeking visual artists to create new work which documents their observations, experiences,…
Hull Under Water (1991), from the series The Parents © Colin Gray This is a fantastic image from Colin Gray’s long term project with his parents. His mother Rene is pretending to swim…
Open Call Documenting St Andrews: Spring and Summer 2020 What is the town of St Andrews like during the pandemic? What are the townspeople doing? How are the workers and the students,…
Let There Be Light : Online Exhibition Edinburgh LoFi – Pinhole Photography Exhibition – April 2020 Image: Paddling Pool by Judith Rowan Follow Edinburgh LoFi for more online…
The Scottish Society for the History of Photography and FLOW photofest have created ‘Best of FLOW’ – A selection of work from FLOW photofest. Enjoy a preview…
The new RSA Award – Pandemic: A personal response to COVID-19 (£2,500) has been set up in response to the COVID-19 outbreak to assist artists with the creation of new work at…
ABOUT THE AWARD The Morton Award (£5,000) is for artists working in a lens-based media in Scotland. The award is funded by The Morton Charitable Trust and administered by the Royal…
Get Involved: #Mass Isolation Projects Inspired by the 1937 Mass Observation project, photography galleries and organisations are inviting us to post our stay at home snaps. Initiated by…
EVERYDAY DELIGHT (Stay at Home Edition) will be an online exhibition showcasing photography that discovers the beauty in the everyday, finds the magic in the mundane, and looks for the…
About the call In light of the increasingly difficult circumstances faced by our freelance photographic community, this year’s Firecracker Photographic Grant is specifically tailored to…
Elementary Blueprint: A nationwide community and individual cyanotype project Elementary Blueprint was originally planned as a creative experiment for participants across Edinburgh. We…
Simon Murphy; winner of the 2019 Richard Coward Scottish Portrait Awards in Photography, is interviewed in the latest issue of Forward, published by Graphical House. You can read his…
Enter the 2020 Scottish Portrait Awards from 2 April to 30 June. You can find all the info on the Scottish Portrait Awards website https://www.scottishportraitawards.com/ The 2020…
New photobook by Adam Geary; Adam Geary | Slow Gaze The Slow Gaze photobook takes a look beneath the cracks of our increasingly fractured lives. Lives in which the ‘home’; itself a…
ABOUT Issue 11 will be the second themed edition of Loupe. We’ll be exploring the concept of ‘Belief’. While this is sure to include a look at religion, we also want to feature work that…
We’ve teamed up with National Trust for Scotland, Glasgow Women’s Library, and the Trust’s Tenement House to create a two-part exhibition, Ways of Seeing, spotlighting Women and…
The Scottish Civic Trust’s My Place Photography Competition is a Scotland-wide heritage photographic project for school age young people (4-18). The theme for submissions this year…
The Visual Artist and Craft Makers Awards (VACMA) are a programme of small grants schemes with a range of local authorities and art agencies across Scotland to support Scotland-based…
7 March – 8 March 2020, 11am – 6pm. Stills are hosting a Photo Market… Over the last couple of years Stills have joined forces with The Fruitmarket Gallery to co-host…
Too Rich a Soil Arpita Shah, Maryam Wahid & Nilupa Yasmin The New Art Gallery Walsall 15th November 2019 – 19th April 2020 GRAIN in collaboration with The New Art Gallery Walsall…
New Photographers Guild is a mentored photography programme preparing recent graduates for professional life beyond education led by Elaine Livingstone, photographer, Claire Stewart,…
CONTACT is an introductory photography course that will teach you basic photography skills as well as encourage you to develop your own projects. Whether you prefer darkrooms, digital or…
9 th Biennial of photography Condroz From August 3rd to 25th, 2019 Watch: Interview with Colin Gray in the final part of video link here. The Biennial offers 20 exhibitions that bring…
Street Level Photoworks – in collaboration with Artlink (Ireland) and Northern Photographic Centre (Finland) – are delighted to announce an open call to Photographers and…
Stills has joined forces with Parabola, the award winning developer and investor, to support an Early Career photographer to embark on a major new commission for Edinburgh Park, as it…
Macrobert Arts Centre is inviting submissions to a photo competition on the theme of ‘Family is what you make it’. The competition theme is linked to our chosen ‘Conversation’ for this…
Written by Ben Reiss, Morton Photography Project Curator. The National Trust for Scotland, in collaboration with Glasgow Women’s Library, is pleased to invite papers for the…
Street Level Open 2019 12th September – 24th November ‘…there is no such thing as a singular photography at all, only discontinuous, myriad photographies…’ – Geoffrey…
In the interests of more effectively pursuing the aims of the Jill Todd Photographic Award – that being to promote early careers in photography through the making and exhibiting of…
Edinburgh based Zoe Hamill will be showing work from her project ‘A Map Without Words’ as part of New Irish Works, Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, Dublin from…
Click here to view an illustrated talk by photographer David Williams given at Edinburgh Napier University as part of the Photography Lecture Series (19th February 2019). Images © David…
The Scottish Portrait Awards 2019 are now open for entries! Entries are open from 2 April 2019 and close at midnight 30th June 2019.
This Summer Alice Myers will be showing video and book work from the project ‘Nothing is Impossible Under the Sun‘ at the Photographers’ Gallery. The project…
A one-day symposium on science and photography will take place on 23rd October in St Andrews. The symposium is presented in conjunction with the 2019 St Andrews Photography Festival,…
Stills are thrilled to announce that the GreenRoom artist's commission, set up in collaboration with PYRUS, is awarded to Edinburgh based artist and photographer Helen Jones.
FLOW Photofest are holding an open competition to have work printed and exhibited as part of their 2019 festival, taking place in Inverness this September. The entry fee is £15.
We are delighted to share that there are three Scottish based winners in this year’s FORMAT International Portfolio Review Awards: Sophie Gerrard, Simona Ciocarlan and Margaret Mitchell.
Glasgow School of Art graduate Flannery O’Kafka is showing work as part of ‘… on making’, on show at The National Museum in Gdańsk from 15th March until 9th June…
Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert's 'Roma of Sintesti' is on show in the Anderson Gallery, National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, Iowa until 27th May 2019.
Glasgow-based artist Jolanta Dolewska is currently exhibiting in 'Altered States' at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, WUK in Vienna which runs until 9th March 2019.
Each year, The Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation offer Grants for analogue photography. Sums of between £250 and £1000 are available and to individuals or groups. Deadline: 2nd April.
Photographers Colin McPherson and Adam Lee will guide you through two days looking into ways to ‘re-set’ your practice as you develop a photographic essay on Easdale island.
Of High Specific Gravity by Scottish photographer Fiona Steel, has been selected as part of Another Place, an online space showcasing photography. The series was created during the New…
Edinburgh-based photographic artist and educator Arpita Shah will give a talk at Midlands Arts Centre on Tuesday 26th March as part of GRAIN 2019.
'A Contested Land' by Document Scotland examines the complex relationship between Scotland’s people, history and landscape. It's on show at the Martin Parr Foundation for the first time…
A Community Darkroom is to be opened in Inverness WASPS in January 2019. The darkroom is a purpose built space which will reinvigorate film photography in the Inverness area.
To mark 100 years since some women achieved the right to vote, we aim to take over parliament with 209 new photographic portraits of all female MPs, shot exclusively by female…
Glasgow-based Margaret Mitchell is amongst the shortlist for Slideluck Editorial’s LOVE ME TENDER global tour, starting 5th December 2018 in the prestigious Palau Robert.
Alan Eglinton's 'Only the fires say' is on show at Galerie Madé, Paris, as part of the Photo Saint-Germain festival, on show 7th November - 24th November 2018.
The RSA Residencies for Scotland is an artist-led scheme. Artists can apply for funds of up to £5000 and are responsible for managing their own residency. Deadline: 20 January 2019.
Edinburgh-based Sylwia Kowalczyk is exhibiting her series 'Lethe' at Galleria X in Bratislava, from 02-14 November, as part of the European Month of Photography.
The result of an exchange between VU, Quebec and Street Level Photoworks, 'Ondes Lumineuses' is the counterpart of ‘Lightwaves’, currently on show in Glasgow.
The third national Jerwood/Photoworks Awards seek proposals from outstanding artists using new approaches to photography. Deadline: 5th November 2018.
Street Level Photoworks partners with Berlin’s aff Galerie to present some of the new talents in Glasgow’s photographic art scene whose work speculates on notions of Place and Cultural…
Frank McElhinney writes a feature on Alishia Farnan's 'Social State' on his blog WOSP, ahead of the Photographic Parallels exhibition at aff Galerie, Berlin in October.
Via Document Scotland: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, Euan Myles and Ilisa Stack have been selected for The British Journal of Photography's Portrait of Britain photo project.
As part of NIDA International Photography Symposium 2018, Street Level Photoworks present a series of short audio-visual pieces on the theme of (Self) Reflection.
Edinburgh-based photographer Alan Eglinton is showing work in 'Sensation Photography: Between or Border' this September as part of Photoville in New York.
Submissions have opened for the the third annual Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award for emerging photographers – with the cash bursary increasing this year from ￡1,250 to ￡2,000.
The National Trust for Scotland is pleased to invite papers (deadline Friday 12th October) for the first Morton Photography Symposium, to be held on Tuesday 9th April, 2019.
