Exhibitions at Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

The Digital Mirror

30 May 2026 – 25 Oct 2026

Wendy McMurdo

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

Daredevil Photographer

18 Oct 2025 – 19 Apr 2026

Alfred G. Buckham

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

Celebrating 40 Years of Scotland’s Photography Collection

26 Oct 2024 – 16 Mar 2025

Beagles & Ramsay, Julia Margaret Cameron, David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson, Don McCullin …

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

Making Space | Photographs of Architecture

7 Oct 2023 – 3 Mar 2024

Thomas Annan, David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson, Andreas Gursky, Chris Leslie …

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

The World's Edge

4 Sep 2021 – 23 Jan 2022

Thomas Joshua Cooper

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

Self Evidence

1 May 2019 – 20 Oct 2019

Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, Francesca Woodman

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Transportation Photographs from the National Galleries of Scotland

2 Jun 2018 – 19 Jan 2019

Alfred G. Buckham, Humphrey Spender, Alfred Stieglitz

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

A Perfect Chemistry

27 May 2017 – 1 Oct 2017

David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

The View from Here

Landscape Photography from the National Galleries of Scotland

29 Oct 2016 – 30 Apr 2017

Thomas Joshua Cooper, Francis Frith, Fay Godwin, Sze Tsung LEONG …

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

Remembering the Great War

4 Aug 2014 – 5 Jul 2015

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

In and Out of Fashion

19 Oct 2013 – 9 Feb 2014

Viviane Sassen

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

19 Oct 2013 – 9 Feb 2014

Anoush Abrar, Dorothee Deiss, Spencer Murphy, Giles Price

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

Man Ray Portraits

22 Jun 2013 – 22 Sep 2013

Man Ray

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

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17 Oct 2012 – 3 Feb 2013

Jitka Hanzlova

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

Migration Stories: Pakistan

1 Dec 2011 – 14 Oct 2012

Verena Jaekel

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

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1 Dec 2011 – 3 Jun 2012

Robert Adamson, James Craig Annan, Alfred G. Buckham, Archibald Burns …

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

PORTRAITS OF THE 1970s

11 Jul 2008 – 4 Jan 2009

Bern Schwartz

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

Entrepreneurial Scotland

Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie

13 Feb 2007 – 22 Apr 2007

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

Being There: Harry Benson's Fifty Years of Photojournalism

4 Aug 2006 – 7 Jan 2007

Harry Benson

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

Modern Women

19 Aug 2004 – 13 Feb 2005

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

Keeping Faith

16 Sep 2004 – 7 Feb 2005

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

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3 Nov 2004 – 16 Jan 2005

Ed Ruscha

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

Clan - the emergence of contemporary clans in the modern-day Highlands

5 Feb 2004 – 12 Apr 2004

Scot. National Portrait · Edinburgh (GB)

Scotland's Dream Team

10 Jun 2003 – 10 Apr 2004