Category: Exhibitions

2025 Summer Sundays and LoFi Jaunts

Summer photowalks and activities for 2025 season.

On the last Sunday of July, August and September our photowalks will take place.

June

14/15th June – Darkbox Images – Open Studios – https://www.d2thecreativecentre.uk/ (Lift available from Edinburgh on the 14th)

July

25-27th July – JR will be showing prints at https://aberdourfestival.org/

July 27th – Granton Gasholder – Summer Sunday Photowalk – meet 11am at the giant Gasholder sign. LRT buses 8, 9, 14, 16, 22, 24, 38 stop nearby. Lunch somewhere after at 1pm – RSVP to info@, restaurant /cafe suggestions welcome and the exact itinery will be updated here nearer the date.

August

2nd/3rd August – JR will be showing prints at the Musselburgh Creates / Open Studios.

16th/August – Festival of Printmaking – Stirling (TBD)

Saturday August 30th – Meander round the Pentland Open Studios – https://postudios.org/

August 31st – Scottish Vintage Bus Museum – Summer Sunday Photowalk– https://www.svbm.online/ Lifts from Edinburgh available RSVP to info@, restaurant /cafe suggestions welcome. Venue opens 12:30. Coffee before. The exact itinery will be updated here nearer the date.

September

September 28th – Dalkeith – Summer Sunday Photowalk (TBD depending on the Photo Festival schedule). Lifts from Edinburgh available RSVP to info@, restaurant /cafe suggestions welcome. The exact itinery will be updated here nearer the date.

Cyanotype Day – Activities TBD

Also –

Let There Be Light – Part 2

Traditional, alternative and lomographic photography 2020 group show.

Planning the exhibition in 2019 we based the work around the ideas of enlightenment and our gratitude to being able to access the public library network. As events unfolded in 2020 and the physical exhibition was postponed we began to consider the effect the pandemic has had upon our photographic practices and how it is important to question and appreciate that which we took for granted.

G Lyall

Part 1 – April 2020

https://edinburghlofi.com/exhibitions/2020/lettherebelight/part1/

Part 1 – THE GALLERY IS OPEN (Click to enter)

As our April exhibition was postponed we decided to celebrate pinhole photography online by showing a selection of photographs taken before lockdown began. (Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day occurs each year on the last Sunday in April http://pinholeday.org/ )

From cardboard boxes with actual “pin holes” to expertly jointed wooden craft pieces with precision drilled plates the variety which can be acheived with the simplest of cameras always inspires us to see the world around us in a new light as we slowly wait for an exposure to be made.

J Rowan

Part 2 – August 2020

https://edinburghlofi.com/exhibitions/2020/lettherebelight/part2/

A selection of images, both newly made and from our unexhibited archives, exploring life as it is now in this “new normal” and the life that we miss in these novel times.

Members projects will go up daily and a catalogue will be available for download on August 31st.

Part 2 – THE GALLERY IS OPEN (Click to enter)

Hacked

Few things are as satisfying for the LoFi photographer as producing a compelling image using a cardboard box and some leftover instant coffee!

This months online exhibition celebrates hacked cameras, processes and prints.

Coronadol processed negatives, laid on white screen of tablet for makeshift light table inverted on iPhone. Brittonie Fletcher, 2020

Click through to the gallery – more work will continue to go up over the month of July.

Hacked Gallery (Click to enter)

Join us in August for Let There Be Light – Part 2.

Featured Image: Through the Dishwasher, Mandy Kerr.

Cameraless

June’s online exhibition features Cameraless prints including photograms, lumens, chemigrams and alternative processes.

Pansies – Lumen by Olive Dean

Cameraless Gallery (Click to enter)

Strips – Photogram by Elaine Robson

New work will be added over the month so please check back to see how the gallery evolves.

In An Instant

May’s Online Exhibition features work by Sheila Borthwick, Ali Millar, Chris Osborne, Mandy Kerr, Roddy Shippin and Elaine Robson.

Polaroid – A Millar

Vintage Polaroids, new OneStep film, Instax Squares, and hybrid images from the Polaroid Lab and Zink instant printers.

Lab Polaroids – Chris Osborne

Lifts, composites, chemical fogs and other diverse techniques are on display.

Polaroid Lift – The Angels of History – Roddy Shippin

In An Instant Gallery (Click to enter)

June’s virtual exhibition will be Cameraless

Let There Be Light – Day 17

Day 17 – Back in 2011/12 when LoFi was just getting started we did a group project called Time Place Light based in Dunbar using various lens-less photographic techniques including pinhole and solargraphs. The results can still be seen on the project blog.

THE GALLERY IS OPEN (Click to enter)

J Rowan
Time Place Light – pinhole paper negative – J Rowan

Let There Be Light – Day 12

Day 12 and Dan Clipsom records the seasonal change On a smallholding, near York

The slow, methodical, procedural nature of pinhole photography as an art, mirrors the process and cycles inherent in the production of food crops and other productive flora.

D Clipsom

THE GALLERY IS OPEN (Click to enter)

Creation by D.Clipsom

Let There Be Light – Day 10

Brittonie Fletcher looks through her collection of throwbacks to bring us day 10.

Do you remember your first pinhole photograph? Where were you on pinhole day? As a group Lofi has formed some wonderful memories of shared experiences. Brittonie Fletcher reminds us of this with today’s gallery of work.

Brittonie Fletchers work may also be seen at the 2020 RSA Annual Exhibition.

THE GALLERY IS OPEN (Click to enter)

Detail from grid pinhole – The Edinburgh LoFi group taken on pinhole day 2018 by Brittonie Fletcher. (The full photo may be seen in the Let There Be Light – Part 1 exhibition.)