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photo season scotland //

running 1 october - 30 november 2025

Photo Season Scotland is a celebration of photography running from 1 October - 30 November 2025. Intended to highlight the multifaceted and varied nature of photographic programming in Scotland, the season includes exhibitions, photo walks, photobook events, artist talks and more.

Initiated by Glasgow’s Street Level Photoworks and Edinburgh-based AGITATE, the season acknowledges the previous manifestations through Photography Scotland of 2015-2017, with this year representing a segue to another potential Season of Photography in 2026. The full programme of events is hosted using year-round resource Photo Networks Scotland. You can take part by opting in to participate and by submitting your event, taking place within the specified timeframe. Designed to illustrate the diversity of activity taking place across the country, Photo Season Scotland embraces the breadth of photographic practice. Its goal is to broaden audience reach by encouraging new connections, and widening the networks of photography in Scotland.

To submit an event or browse the full calendar as it develops, click here.

 

readers 3.1 //

CORAL EMPIRE BY ANN ELIAS

upcoming: THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER, 6:30-8PM

For this session of READERS we have teamed up with our dear friend Christina Riley: writer, photographer, artist and founder of The Nature Library who has chosen this session's text.

CORAL EMPIRE by Ann Elias traces the visual and social history of coral reefs through the works of John Ernest Williamson in the Bahamas and Frank Hurley in Australia. The book explores how their modern media spectacles yoked the tropics and coral reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature and how their reckless treatment of the sea prefigured attitudes that caused the environmental crises that the oceans and reefs now face. Using the labour and knowledge of indigenous peoples while exoticizing and racializing them as inferior Others, Williamson and Hurley sustained colonial fantasies about people of color and the environment as endless resources to be plundered. In the selected chapter, Mad Love, Elias looks at the way the visual spontaneity of underwater photography appealed to the Surrealist movement's attraction to "figuration, dream images and hallucinations", suggesting that "a diver, like an artist, symbolised an explorer of the unconscious".

Please note that booking is essential and will close 7-days before the event.

 

photo breakfast //  first wednesday of every month

9:30-11am, pop coffee (grindlay street)

We miss having a direct line to the wider photo public and are big fans of breakfast, so are organising a monthly photography brunch open to everyone. Join us in the Atrium underneath our studio from 9:30-11AM where we'll provide basic hot beverages and something tasty to munch.

A great opportunity to have a blether about your works-in-progress, celebrate your triumphs, bemoan the broken systems of the world and know that in the comfort of caffeine and buttery pastry you'll at least not be alone. Free, all welcome, you can book here if you'd like an email reminder.

Image on left: Christina Webber, 2021

 

Film und FOTO KLUB //  next SCREENING 14 november

SCREENED ON THURS 22 MAY I AM MARTIN PARR

Since the 1970s, English photographer Martin Parr has held up a sometimes tender, sometimes critical and always mischievous mirror to our times, forcing us to take a hard look at how consumer society has shaped our lives. Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate and exclusive road trip across England with the uncompromising Parr, whose subjects, frames and colours have revolutionised contemporary photography.