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Apr 04
Interview: Forward Journal – Simon Murphy

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…

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Apr 02
Scottish Portrait Awards 2020

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…

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Mar 10
Slow Gaze by Adam Geary

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…

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Jan 29
Open Call – Belief | Loupe Magazine

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…

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Jan 29
CALL FOR ENTRIES: Ways of Seeing – Women and Photography in Scotland

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…

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Jan 29
Call for entries: My Place Photography Competition

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…

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Jan 21
Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards

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…

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Nov 02
Open Call: Stills Photo Market

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…

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Oct 24
GRAIN – Too Rich a Soil: Arpita Shah, Maryam Wahid & Nilupa Yasmin

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…

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Oct 08
Open Call: New Photographers Guild 2019 / 2020

New Photographers Guild is a mentored photography programme preparing recent graduates for professional life beyond education led by Elaine Livingstone, photographer, Claire Stewart,…

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Aug 29
Open Call | CONTACT: Stills School for 16-25yr olds

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…

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Aug 08
Artist News: Colin Gray at the 9th Biennale de photographie en Condroz

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…

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Aug 08
‘On the Edge’ – Residency Opportunities in Finland and Ireland

Street Level Photoworks – in collaboration with Artlink (Ireland) and Northern Photographic Centre (Finland) – are delighted to announce an open call to Photographers and…

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Jul 27
The Stills / Edinburgh Park Photography Commission

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…

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Jul 18
OPEN CALL: Family is what you make 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…

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Jul 18
CALL FOR PAPERS: Second Morton Photography Symposium at Glasgow Women’s Library

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…

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Jul 16
OPEN CALL: Street Level Open 2019

Street Level Open 2019 12th September – 24th November  ‘…there is no such thing as a singular photography at all, only discontinuous, myriad photographies…’ – Geoffrey…

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Jul 09
A Change in Direction – The Jill Todd Photo Award and Futureproof Prize Announcement

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…

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Jul 03
New Irish Works

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…

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Jun 27
Watch: ‘Trying to Get Home’ Lecture by David Williams

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…

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Jun 15
Scottish Portrait Awards 2019

The Scottish Portrait Awards 2019 are now open for entries! Entries are open from 2 April 2019 and close at midnight 30th June 2019.

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Jun 04
TPG New Talent Exhibition

  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…

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May 22
Call for Papers: Science & Photography Symposium

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,…

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Apr 02
Stills GreenRoom Commission

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.

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Apr 02
FLOW Photofest Open Competition 2019

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.

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Mar 19
FORMAT International Portfolio Review Awards

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.

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Mar 13
Art North

ART NORTH is a new quarterly visual arts magazine with a primary focus on Scotland and the Far North. The magazine will present the visual arts of the North in the truly international…

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Mar 05
… on making

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…

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Mar 05
Roma of Sintesti

Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert's 'Roma of Sintesti' is on show in the Anderson Gallery, National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, Iowa until 27th May 2019.

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Feb 06
Altered States

Glasgow-based artist Jolanta Dolewska is currently exhibiting in 'Altered States' at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, WUK in Vienna which runs until 9th March 2019.

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Jan 23
The Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation​​

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.

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Jan 22
Easdale Island Creative Courses

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.

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Jan 22
Another Place: Fiona Steel

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…

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Jan 15
GRAIN Photographers Talk: Arpita Shah

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.

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Dec 18
A Contested Land

'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…

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Dec 18
The Inverness Darkroom

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.

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Dec 05
209 Women

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…

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Nov 21
LOVE ME TENDER

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.

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Nov 06
Alan Eglinton: Only The Fires Say

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.

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Oct 31
RSA Residencies for Scotland 2019

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.

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Oct 31
Sylwia Kowalczyk: Lethe

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. 

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Oct 25
Ondes Lumineuses

The result of an exchange between VU, Quebec and Street Level Photoworks, 'Ondes Lumineuses' is the counterpart of ‘Lightwaves’, currently on show in Glasgow.

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Oct 23
Jerwood/Photoworks Awards

The third national Jerwood/Photoworks Awards seek proposals from outstanding artists using new approaches to photography. Deadline: 5th November 2018.

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Oct 14
Photographic Parallels

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…

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Sep 04
Alishia Farnan ‘Social State’

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.

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Sep 04
Portrait of Britain

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.

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Aug 30
NIDA International Photography Symposium 2018

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.

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Aug 21
Sensation Photography: Between or Border

Edinburgh-based photographer Alan Eglinton is showing work in 'Sensation Photography: Between or Border' this September as part of Photoville in New York.

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Aug 14
Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award

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. 

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Aug 14
Call for Papers: The National Trust for Scotland

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.

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Aug 07
Catrine Val: PHILOSOPHERS, Women’s Wisdom

Catrine Val's 'Philosopher, the Female Wisdom' will be on show at the International Association of Women Philosophers conference, and the 24th World Congress of Philosophy.

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Aug 01
Creative Exchange: Orkney – Edinburgh

Stills is delighted to announce a new Creative Exchange programme between Orkney and Edinburgh, sponsored by Highland Park single malt Scotch Whisky.

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Jul 24
Jill Todd Photographic Award 2018

Applications are open for early career photographers to enter newly made work. Win up to £1000, an exhibition at StreetLevel and a photography masterclass.