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Exhibitions and Events 1-30th September, 2017
Exhibitions and Events 1-30th September, 2017
Following on from our inaugural year in 2016, we are so pleased to bring another great line up of photographers to St Andrews. This year we have focused on the theme of ‘Scots at Home’, which has taken on several different permutations from the literal to the abstract.
St Andrew’s Photography Festival 2016
We are building on our previous successes and trying some new things this year. There is an increase in use of outdoor spaces which proved popular last year. We have aimed for a balance between both historic and contemporary collections acknowledging the past while working with practicing artists. With the addition of the Fringe this year we hoped to open the festival to the local creative community and we are so pleased by the responses across St Andrews. Scotland celebrates the year of History, Heritage and Archaeology in 2017 and we are delighted to bring that theme to the people of St Andrews this September. The history of photography has strong roots in the town and the lineage of Scottish photographers from those early practitioners deserves to be celebrated. We hope you enjoy this year’s festival! Your Festival Organisers: Rhonda McCrimmon Manager, BID St Andrews
EventScotland is proud to support the St Andrew’s Photography Festival 2017. Scotland is the perfect stage for events and our cultural and sporting scene is as legendary as our crowds.
David Russell Operations Manager, BID St Andrews Rachel Nordstrom Photographic Collections Manager, The University of St Andrews Library
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Cover image © Eddie Martin. Picture opposite © ASM media
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© George Cowie
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40th Anniversary of Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
Scottish Design & Innovation
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Venue: The Scores Opening times: 24 hours
© Hamish Brown
In its first 40 years, Stills has presented more than 230 exhibitions. The selection represented by these posters illustrates how it has become an internationally renowned organisation at the forefront of developments in photographic practice and learning.
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Venue: East Scores, near Castle Sands Opening times: 24 hours For this year’s St Andrews Photography Festival, Stills is presenting a display of exhibition posters from its archive. Dating from 1977 to the present day, these chart the organisation’s rich and diverse programmes of exhibitions over the last 40 years. In that time, Stills has brought work by many of the world’s most celebrated and historically important photographers to Edinburgh for the first time for Scottish audiences to discover and enjoy at home.
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Scotland has long been famous for excellence in design and technology, engineering and invention. The Scottish Enlightenment and the industrial revolution heralded an explosion of scientific and academic accomplishment which continues to this day. Along with design innovation, Scotland has played a significant role in the history of photography. The photographic archive of the University of St Andrews holds tens of thousands of images from which this exhibition has been drawn.
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Disappearing Glasgow Chris Leslie Venue: Holy Trinity Opening times: 24 hours
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Since 2006 over 30% of Glasgow’s tower blocks have been demolished. Entire communities have disappeared as Glasgow embarks on its latest orgy of demolition, a ‘solution’ that has been so prevalent in the city’s history. Glaswegians have grown so familiar with mass demolition and subsequent regeneration to change, reinvent and market the city. They can perhaps be forgiven for not noticing, or even caring about the fundamental changes that have taken place in just a short period of eight years. If you blinked you really could have missed it.
Underwater Landscapes Eddie Martin Venue: The Scores Opening times: 24 hours
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A native of North East Fife, Eddie Martin has had a lifelong affinity with water. As a photographer he has spent years capturing the atmosphere and wonder of the light and life beneath the surface, particularly in shallow rivers and lochs throughout the Highlands of Scotland. Carving inexorably from mountain to sea, water defines and shapes our whole landscape. The ancient interface between solid and liquid is full of perfect natural sculpture, lit by dancing sunshine from above that never rests for a moment. Snorkelling through crystalline water, surrounded by such boundless beauty, might be one of the most enjoyable ways to spend a sunlit day in the mountains.
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In This Place Margaret Mitchell
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Calotype Views of St Andrews Robert Douglas
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Venue: The Scores Opening times: 24 hours
Venue: Cafe In The Square Opening times: Monday—Saturday, 10:00—16:30
In This Place looks at family and home, connections and place, touching on issues of social and personal inertia. A personal yet universally relatable story of family, loss, love & survival set within a wider socio-economic context. Against a backdrop of their mother’s death and limited opportunities, there is a glue that binds them together. The family renews; it endures.
Using the methods and Chemistry described by Dr John Adamson combined with Victorian lenses, Robert Douglas the “21st century Calotypist” brings you Calotype Views of St Andrews harking back to the infancy of photography before the art became industrialised. These were produced during the course of several visits to St Andrews each image taking many hours to produce. They are the result of much research, effort and passion.
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Tanera (Ar Dùthaich) Kev Percival
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Venue: Byre Theatre Opening times: Monday—Saturday, 10:00—21:00; Sunday, 12:00—16:00 Tanera (Ar Dùthaich) focuses on a tiny island off the west coast of Scotland, where I lived and worked for several years. The island had a very small population when I lived there, but has a particularly interesting and close relationship with the local mainland communities. Many have lived or worked on the island, on the fish farm in the bay, fishing or running tours in the waters around the Summer Isles Archipelago. As such Tanera occupies a specific place in hearts, minds and mythologies of the local people. The photographs are a ‘portrait of place’, shown through the people and the marks and effects they have on the landscape around them.
Valentine’s Scottish Islands
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Venue: Martyrs Kirk Research Library Opening times: Monday—Friday 9:00—17:00 This exhibition gives a flavour of how the postcard firm of Valentine & Sons depicted the Hebridean Islands of Scotland during the period 1890 to 1960. Valentine’s postcards and photographs of any place was driven by what they thought would sell to the public and this lead to a different depiction of the country to the tourist view we have today. Many of the images taken and made into postcards are of the towns and villages of the islands and transport as well as the more recognisable tourist attractions of the countryside, castles and ancient monuments. The images in this exhibition thus reflect the commercial and social values of the times and the purpose the images served in being a souvenir to send home, or a photograph to show on returning home in a time when few people had cameras.
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© Gemma Dagger
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Fòcas India: Document
The Kinnairds of Rossie Priory
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Venue: Adamson Cocktail Bar Opening times: Monday—Sunday 12:00—22:00
Fòcas Scotland is a non-profit platform that supports emerging photographers based in Scotland to collaborate with their peers around the world.
© Hannah Laycock
Venue: Holy Trinity Opening times: 24 hours
© Lucie Rachel
Fòcas India celebrates emerging photography from Scotland and India as part of the UK India Year of Culture 2017. Three Scottish artists are included in this portfolio exhibition, whose work has been selected for a digital commission from the British Council and Creative Scotland. Lucie Rachel documents her parents’ extraordinary relationship and our ingrained perceptions of gender and love. Hannah Laycock explores her diagnosis with MS and Gemma Dagger examines myth and ritual in our domestic realm. Across genres including documentary, portraiture and landscape, Fòcas India: Document reveals the stories that define us as individuals and the ties that bind us as nations.
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Rossie Priory is a country house and estate to the north of Inchture. An early calotype photographic studio was established here for George Kinnaird, 9th Lord Kinnaird with the assistance of Thomas Rodger around 1850. These images represent a wonderful array of early photographic practitioners posing at Rossie Priory with their apparatus, portraits of gentlemen and ladies in period attire, key figures from Scotland’s early photographic circle, and the darkrooms at Rossie Priory. Identified subjects: Sir David Brewster, Lord de Manley, Mr W Ponsonby, Lady Kinnaird, Mr Cook, Mr McNamara, Mr Chapman and Mr John Grant of Kilgraston. It is possible that the unidentified portraits represent some of Scotland’s earliest photographic practitioners.
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Exhibitions Competition Winner Heidi Blanksma
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Throughout Scotland, golf is ubiquitous. That’s not to say that there are merely lots of golf courses; that could be said of many places around the world. In Scotland, golf is an integral part of the community and has been for centuries.
Competition Runners-Up Venue: Con Panna Opening times: Monday—Saturday 9:00—17:00; Sunday 9:30—17:00
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Our first photography competition saw a whole host of talented photographers battling it out for the first-place prize. Sadly, there can only be one winner but these table-top exhibitions in Con Panna on South Street will showcase the talents of our two runners-up Susan Williamson and Matt Sim who each have their own exhibition. © George Cowie
This small exhibition gives just three examples of community involvement – the citizens who make their living from golf, the women who have always been part of golf and the golfing elite who helped to make golf global. Other examples are myriad and are worthy of further research and identification.
© Susan Williamson
Venue: British Golf Museum Opening times: Monday—Saturday 9:30—17:00; Sunday 10:00—17:00
© Heidi Blanksma
We would like to thank everyone who entered the competition and our judges Carolyn Scott, Roger Watson and Rachel Nordstrom.
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Scots at Home on the Green
2017 sees our first annual photography competition and we’re delighted to announce that the winner is Heidi Blanksma with her image ‘Feel the Rain’. Her image was beautiful and sympathetic to not only the Scottish climate which she mentions in her text ‘Making the most of the Scottish weather is a wonderful and fulfilling experience’ but also using the medium of photography as an art form. Carolyn Scott says it really has a ‘Julia Margaret Cameron sort of feel to it’. Roger Watson said, ‘I would love to see more’.
As the calibre of the entries was so high, there will also be a table-top exhibition in Con Panna of thirteen ‘Notable Mentions’ as chosen by our judges. © Matt Sim
© Lawrence Levy
Venue: The Byre Theatre Opening times: Monday—Saturday 10:00—21:00; Sunday 10:00—17:00
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Plan of St Andrews, 1838. Image courtesy University of St Andrews Library: StADA890.S1G8E38
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17:50—18:30; Disappearing Glasgow; Illustrated Talk by Chris Leslie; free Venue: Martyrs Kirk Research Library, North Street Photographer and filmmaker Chris Leslie is widely acknowledged as the most consistent chronicler of the city’s recent history. This new multimedia exhibition and accompanying book ‘Disappearing Glasgow’ documents an era of spectacular change in Glasgow through photography and film. This illustrated screening by Chris Leslie will show short films from the project and raise discussion about the latest chapter in Glasgow’s on-going regeneration.
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9:00—17:00; Advanced Collodion Workshop; £150 (£250 for both courses) Venue: St Andrews Community Room, 42 South Street Over two days, wet collodion photographer Richard Cynan Jones will teach two workshops, one for beginners and one for those who have experimented with alternative processes previously. Attend on according to experience or sign up for both days for a more in-depth understanding of one of the earliest photographic processes. Classes will be kept small, to only 6 students in each to have a better opportunity to learn from Richard.
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12:00—16:00; every 30 minutes; Rob Douglas Calotype Demonstrations; free Venue: St Andrews Community Room, 42 South Street Contemporary calotype artist and featured exhibitor this year Rob Douglas will demonstrate some of the earliest photographic processes: the Calotype, the Lucotype and the photogenic drawing. The demonstration takes approximately 30 minutes and will be repeated throughout the afternoon.
Come and join us at the Cross Keys bar for a photographically inspired pub quiz. There will be prizes, laughs and good company. The quiz is brought to you by the Scottish Society for the History of Photography (SSHoP).
10:00—12:30; Photographic Treasures of Special Collections; free Venue: Martyrs Kirk Research Library, North Street Come to the Special Collections’ reading room to see some photographic treasures from the Special Collections Archive, illustrating the historic importance of Scottish photographers and the growing contemporary collection, including social documentary and local history.
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13 September
Photo pub quiz; 19:00; £5 Venue: Cross Keys Pub, Market Street
17.30—19.30; Portfolio Reviews with Malcolm Dickson; free Venue: Martyrs Kirk Research Library, North Street Malcolm Dickson of Street Level Photoworks is interested in viewing bodies of work in their early stages OR substantially developed from photographers based in Fife or outside the Central Belt, which blend experimental approaches, conceptual or issue based themes; social landscape work and new documentary; work that tells a compelling story; lyrical and narrative; photography based work that intersects with other media. Advice will be given on the basis of the work seen. Not interested in fashion, commercial or classical modes of documentary. Students are encouraged to seek advice from experienced tutors and from existing resources available online.
17:30—19:30; Scotland’s Far North Looped film, duration 14 minutes; free Venue: Martyrs Kirk Research Library This short film profiles three bodies of work from the late 1970s which provide a unique insight into Scotlandʼs remote landscape, islands and people. Glen Satterley’s ‘Caithness and Sutherland’, Tom Kidd’s ‘Shetland’ and Chick Chalmers ‘Orkney’ present fascinating photographic glimpses of these areas at a time of change with the effects of the oil industry on the traditional life of these cultures. Candid and sympathetic, the images show that Scotlandʼs Far North took its place in the modern world without losing too many of the customs and traditions which give these places their special character and ethos. The programme was developed for Scotland’s mobile cinema, The Screen Machine, with the aim of pioneering new ways of taking photography to cinema audiences in remote places in the Highlands and Islands.
© Glyn Satterly
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Wet collodion photographer Richard Cynan Jones will teach two workshops, one for beginners and one for those who have experimented with alternative processes previously. Sign up for both days for a more in-depth understanding of one of the earliest photographic processes. Classes will be kept small, to only 6 students in each to have a better opportunity to learn from Richard.
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9:00—17:00; Collodion Workshop for Beginners; £150 (£250 for both courses) Venue: St Andrews Community Room, 42 South Street
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9 September
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Richard Cynan Jones will take you through the process of having your portrait taken using this beautiful historical process. You’ll get a real sense of what the Lords and Ladies of the past felt like whilst sitting for a portrait.
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A poetry reading with a difference, this event will combine projected, historic photographs with live readings of the poems they inspired. The images from which Brian Johnstone has derived inspiration for his poetry range from works by Robert Moyes Adam and Thomas Rodger from University of St Andrews Special Collections, to his father’s wartime snapshots from the Africa campaign, to American images by Alfred Steigliz and Southworth & Hawes.
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Come and join Kit Martin at East Sands Beach for an afternoon of experimental sea side cyanotypes. You’ll be coating your own paper with cyanotype emulsion, then leaving it to dry. We will then be using our travelling darkroom, the Sun, the Sea and the flotsam and jetsam on the beach to create your pictures.
© Kit Martin
14:30—16:30; Seaside Cyanotypes; £25/20 Venue: East Sands near Leisure Centre
17 September
12:15—13:00; Colin Prior Lunchtime Talk £5 Venue: Holy Trinity Church The advent of digital photography brought about the democratisation of the medium and its popularity is, in part, due to it being a conduit for personal expression. In his presentation, entitled The Elementals, Colin Prior will discuss how he uses photography to explore his relationship with the elements of the natural world and how Scotland’s landscape continues to surprise him.
14:00—16:00; Photo History Tour of St Andrews with Sara Stevenson; free Venue: Meet at Martyrs Kirk Research Library St Andrews was crucial in the early development of photography. Many of the properties in St Andrews which were depicted in the earliest days of photography can still be seen. Including the first purpose built photographic studio in St Andrews, Dr John Adamson’s house and Fishergate. Join noted photo historian Dr Sara Stevenson and the Royal Photographic Society Historical Group on a walking tour of the streets of St Andrews.
10:00—16:30; Victorian Tintype Studio £20 Venue: St Andrews Community Room 42 South Street Richard Cynan Jones will take you through the process of having your portrait taken using this beautiful historical process. You’ll get a real sense of what the Lords and Ladies of the past felt like whilst sitting for a portrait. You’ll get your very own Tintype portrait to take away with you. An antique family heirloom created in the 21st Century. Booking is essential. Please email
[email protected] to secure your place.
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You’ll get your very own Tintype portrait to take away with you. An antique family heirloom created in the 21st Century, next to two icons of the 21st Century! Booking is essential. Please email
[email protected] to secure your place.
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18:30—21:00; Stopping the Photo / Fixing the Poem, Photopoetry Reading with Brian Johnstone; free Venue: Byre Theatre, Lawrence Levy Studio
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Come and get your Victorian Tintype portrait taken with the famous Kelpie Maquettes.
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17:00—19:00; A Perfect Chemistry, Talk by Anne Lyden; £5 Venue: Parliament Hall Anne Lyden, International Photography Curator at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, will discuss her recent book about the photography of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, one of history’s most famous photographic partnerships. During the four years that the Edinburgh duo worked together before Adamson’s early death in 1848, the two produced several thousand prints encompassing landscapes, architectural views and tableau vivant from Scottish literature, as well as portraiture. This talk is presented in partnership with Topping & Company Booksellers.
13:00—16:00; Pinhole Photography Workshop, £25/20. Venue: St Andrews Community Room 42 South Street Back to basics workshop where you will construct your own cardboard camera then take photographs with it! Learn the basics of pinhole photography followed by the magical chemical process of developing black and white prints in a darkroom. No experience is necessary. All materials provided.
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10:00—16:00; Victorian Tintype Studio £20 Venue: Bruce Embankment
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13 September
Fringe Exhibitions
© Marcus Gray
© Daniele Sambo
Fringe Exhibitions
The Hidden Photobooks University of St Andrews Library
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Library visitors may be interested to know that not all of our photobooks are located in the photography section on level 4. Many fascinating books featuring world-renowned photographers are to be found distributed throughout the collections as a whole. Some are recognisably photobooks by celebrated photographers but on a particular topic, others are anthologies collecting together various photographers’ work covering such subjects as the Paris Metro, or the Civil Rights movement, or books which feature photographs as visual accompaniment to their text, particularly poetry. We will be collecting these books together into a browsable and, for library users, borrowable exhibit, so best come early to see as many as possible.
Visual Dialogues and Narratives St. Andrews Community Hospital
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Daniele Sambo and Christine Goodman began a joint residency at the St Andrews Community Hospital in January 2017. For sixteen weeks they facilitated art workshops at the hospital with patients, offering a creative space to escape the daily hospital routine, access to art books and materials and the possibility of socialising in a different environment. The exhibition is the result of a collaborative process and features artworks built on their experiences from the project and highlight the patients’ stories. During the exhibition a series of weekly workshops within the hospital will be provided to engage patients, outpatients and the general public.
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The St Andrews Photographic Society Exhibition Holy Trinity Church
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10.00—16:00 except Sundays, Saturdays 9th and 23rd
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The St Andrews Photographic Society has many members ranging from beginners to experts, covering subjects including digital images either as projected images or printed/mounted photographs, subjects include landscape, wildlife, nature, travel and portraits as well as still life.
Opening times: 10.00—16:00 except Sundays, Saturdays 9th and 23rd
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Portraits of notable St. Andrews residents old and young, captured at work, at home, at play and beyond.
Opening times: 10.00—16:00 except Sundays, Saturdays 9th and 23rd
© Nicola Shepherd
An exhibition of mounted photographs by local photographers, who have united to share their vision of the amazing diversity of landforms, seascapes as well as plant and animal life to be found in Scotland and further afield.
© Richard Cormack
Scotland at Home Holy Trinity Church
© Nicola Shepherd
Fringe Exhibitions
© Nicola Shepherd
Fringe Exhibitions
Caroline Douglas will be delivering a talk relating to her research as a visiting scholar at the University of St Andrews Library, Special Collections. Her area of interest has been the portrayal of women in early photographic collections. Join us as she shares some of her research findings and brings a few items from the collections for you to enjoy. 9 September
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Photographic presentation by renowned photographer Hunter Kennedy, whose interests include landscape, portrait and street photography. Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult.
10:00—12:30; Abstract Photography Workshop £30 Venue: Meet at St Andrews Harbour The aim of this workshop is that that you will use your digital camera to produce some abstract photographs taken in and around the harbour area of St Andrews. We hope to hold a small exhibition of the resulting photographs (one per person) later on in the Festival. This is to be confirmed. Booking is essential. Email
[email protected]
19:15; St Andrews Photographic Society Open Social Night Venue: Art Club Rooms (14c Argyle St, behind Westport printers) Note of thanks:
Come along and meet our members for an insight into St Andrews Photographic Society’s programme of speakers and events for 2017/18. Meet and greet with refreshments. All Welcome, but under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult.
We would like to acknowledge and thank EventScotland for their holistic support of this festival, including general event advice as well as providing grant income to extend the reach of our PR and Marketing for 2017. Their support has been invaluable and we look forward to continuing our relationship in the future.
15:00; Golf and Sport Walkabout; free Venue: Meet at 17th green at St Andrews links Interested in action photography, then St Andrews has a wealth of varying activities and sports around the town, focusing especially on Golf for which the town and the links are globally recognised. In addition, sand yachting, surfing, kite boarding and rugby take place throughout the year. Starting with the iconic view of the Swilcan Burn looking toward the Royal & Ancient clubhouse and conclude with taking in a game of rugby at University Park around 5.30pm. Come prepared for all weather, with a camera!
The team at the University of St Andrews Library: Jane Campbell, Eddie Martin, Trevor Ledger and Marcus Gray for curating exhibitions; John MacColl, Ewan McCubbin, Gabriel Sewell, Beth Andrews, Sarah Rodriguez, Elspeth Ross and Lydia Heeley for their logistical support and guidance. © Chris Reekie
13 September
A casual walkabout taking photographs around St Andrews with members of St Andrews Photographic Society, suitable for all abilities. Under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult.
© Emily Noakes
10:00—12:00 Walkabout with your camera; free Venue: Meet at Argyle Street Car Park
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23 September
19:15 Hunter Kennedy Talk: Prints Past and Present; Free Venue: Art Club Rooms, 14C Argyle Street
Thank you to all our volunteers, including our BID intern Natalie, for their dedicated help and support. Also thank you to Fife Council area committee for their continued support. Thank you also to Carolyn Scott, Independent Photographer and Roger Watson, Curator – Fox Talbot Museum for their expert eye in helping to judge our inaugural Photography Festival competition. All our St Andrews Fringe supporters and participants, we are delighted to welcome you to our Festival and thank you for taking the time and effort to be involved. The Festival will be richer for your involvement. We would also like to thank our venues; all of whom provide free space for our exhibitions. These businesses allow this festival to reach all over town in a way that would not be possible without their generous support.
© Stan Farrow
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17:15—18:00; The (His)tory of Photography? Unknown Women in Early Photography in Scotland; Talk by Caroline Douglas; free Venue: Martyrs Kirk Research Library
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Fringe Events
© Hunter Kennedy
Fringe Events
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