Street Level Photoworks

23/10/2026

The third Annual Maud Sulter Lecture took place yesterday with guest Joy Gregory in the fab venue of the Reid Lecture Theatre at The Glasgow School of Art. Great talk and engaging audience. Joy is an award-winning artist whose practice is concerned with social and political issues with particular reference to history and cultural differences in contemporary society. Her exhibition ‘Catching Flies with Honey’ is currently on show at Arnolfini as part of Bristol Photo Festival and she is also the editor of 'Shining Lights', an anthology of Black British women’s photography from the 1980s and 1990s, published by MACK in collaboration with Autograph She also undertook a salon today at Glasgow Women's Library designed to support emerging women of colour creatives. Joy’s lecture was introduced and the Q+A convened by Pelumi Odubanjo - curator, writer, and PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow.

The Annual Maud Sulter Lecture is presented by Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow Women's Library , GSA Exhibitions, The Glasgow School of Art, GSA Fine Art Critical Studies (FACS) and Many Studios. The series aims to build on Maud’s legacy by providing a platform for Black and Women of Colour to speak to the context she worked in and how Maud’s legacy has impacted their own approach.

Photography: Alan Dimmick

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22/10/2026

Visitors of the Day to Photoautomat - Berlin/Glasgow: Natalie and Kyle Thomson. Today is their 8 anniversary as a couple and as of 1 hour ago married. The Photoautomat has proven to be extremely popular for newlyweds, and everyone else. Congratulations!

Simon Murphy Photoautomat - Berlin

21/10/2026

Sayuri Ichida and Roman Manfredi, the Jerwood/Photoworks 5 Awardees, have each created an Artist Film to accompany the work on display in our current exhibition, offering a deeper look at the ideas behind their projects.

Sayuri Artist Video https://photoworks.org.uk/sayuri-ichida-kuseki/

Roman Artist Video https://photoworks.org.uk/roman-manfredi-tra/

Sayuri Ichida’s, Kūseki addresses the rapid population decline in Japan. As birth rates fall and towns shrink, schools, once central to daily life, stand empty, their presence quietly fading from the landscape. The presentation of Kūseki spans across photography, collage, sound and sculptural installation in an effort to respond to this ongoing disappearance.

Roman’s work titled TRA exists in the liminal, hinting at transformation, motion without destination. It speaks to a state of being between, among, and within, an energetic space where masculine and feminine converge and dissolve, where categories blur into something more elemental. Using still and moving images, portraits, film and fragments, Roman journeys through Napoli.

Image 1: Sayuri Ichida (left) and Roman Manfredi (right) © Tiu Makkonen
Image 2: Sayuri Ichida Film Still © courtesy of Photoworks
Image 3: Roman Manfredi Film Still © courtesy of Photoworks

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18/10/2026

Visitor of the day: Alan Dimmick.

Alan is a very well-known photographer who has been documenting now for over five decades the contemporary art scene in and around Glasgow in monochrome.
He was also fortunate enough to have his work seen by Oscar Marzaroli, who was very encouraging.

We have copies of Alan's latest book 'Island Record' in our shop.
The book captures family visits to Millport and the Isle of Cumbrae.

18/10/2026

Public voting closes tomorrow - 19th October.
We're thrilled that Crown Street Camera Collective have been nominated for the Glasgow Times Community Champions Award.

The Collective is a community-based group of photographers rooted in the Gorbals, which originated from our Culture Collective residency in 2021 - 2023. This residency celebrated the Gorbals’ rich visual history, local personalities and vibrant community through workshops, events, and creative engagement.

The Crown Street Camera Collective's current exhibition 'Caledonia Road Flats' is installed at the Gorbals Library and runs until Sunday 6 December.

Our ongoing work in the Gorbals is just one of our long-running community engagement programmes. This is rooted in our deep belief in art’s transformative role and the value of photography for relationship building, reducing isolation, increasing confidence and improving wellbeing.

Please share your vote for Crown Street Camera Collective in the Arts Champion category on the Glasgow Times website.

Vote on this year's Evening Times Community Champion Awards 2019

16/10/2026

Visitor of the Day: A pleasure to have a visit today Katy Hundertmark, over from Amsterdam for a break in the wilds of Scotland. She is Managing Editor and Curator of Foam Magazine within Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. She is no stranger to Scotland or Street Level though, having lived in Glasgow for many years, and undertook a Masters degree at The Glasgow School of Art; and having participated as an artist in 'AMBIT - Photographies from Scotland' in 2019, an initiative and partnership we undertook with Stills which celebrated new and diverse approaches to photographic image making in Scotland. She also worked at Stills in 2017/18 and also taught on their courses.

Sign up to her very interesting newsletter 'dear midnight': https://katyhundertmark.substack.com/ - reflections on all things photography, publishing and the artistic process.

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15/10/2026

It is National Album Day this Saturday, very fitting for the opening of 'The One LP Project' by William Ellis which is being presented for its second Scottish showing at Dunoon Burgh Hall from the 17th October to 19th November 2026.

Anyone attending the opening this Saturday 17th October from 1 - 3pm is invited to bring along an album of significance to have their portrait taken by William Ellis.

One LP is a unique and critically-acclaimed portrait photography project that explores the inspirational qualities of recordings and the impact that they have on people’s lives.

Dunoon Burgh Hall Opening Hours: Weds-Sat, 11am to 3pm

Image: Samara Joy © William Ellis

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11/10/2026

It’s been a busy and exciting month of the Jerwood/Photoworks Award 5 exhibition with the two incredible projects Sayuri Ichida’s 空席 (Kūseki) and Roman Manfedi’s TRA.

Ichida’s work, 空席 (Kūseki), meaning “empty seats”, addresses Japan’s rapid population decline, with rural communities among the hardest hit. As birth rates fall and towns shrink, schools, once central to daily life, stand empty, their presence quietly fading from the landscape. The presentation of Kūseki spans across photography, collage, sound and sculptural installation in an effort to respond to this ongoing disappearance.

TRA by Roman Manfredi draws inspiration from the ancient Neapolitan figure of the femminiello, a revered presence considered spiritually favourable, the work pays homage to locals who live outside binary gender expectations. The word tra, Italian for a state of being between, among and within, speaks in this work to an energetic space where masculine and feminine converge and dissolve

The exhibition continues until the 20th of December. Opening hours: Tue-Sat, 10am-5.30pm and Sunday 12-5pm.

Images 1-4: Sayuri Ichida’s 空席 (Kūseki) exhibition install
Image 5-8: Roman Manfredi’s TRA exhibition install

All install photographs by Tiu Makkonen

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08/10/2026

Visitors of the day: HND students from South Lanarkshire College, East Kilbride, after popping into the City Chambers to see Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert’s Nelson Mandela, in Glasgow images.

The students enjoyed seeing 3 very different exhibitions: Robert H King in the foyer and Roman Manfredi and Sayer Ichida as part of Jerwood Photoworks Award in our main galleries.

The group also took the opportunity to get their photographs taken in the , Trongate 103

06/10/2026

Glasgow-based artist Elina Bry Elina Bry undertook a month-long residency in May/June at Kulttuurikauppila Art Centre, arranged through Photo North - Northern Photographic Centre – Northern Photographic Centre in Oulu as part of their ‘Adaptation’ project.

Bry’s work explores the relationship between humans and nature in a time of climate anxiety and climate change. During the residency she chose to ‘slow travel’, journeying to Northern Finland by land and sea. The resulting work, shown in the exhibition Adaptation, addresses the topic through moving image, sound and performance. Bry also aims to bring the voices and feelings of local people about nature to a wider audience. As she is half-Finnish, she has a strong connection to Finnish nature, which she has also explored in her previous work, Is The Earth Chronically Ill? (2023–2024).

The exhibition ‘Adaptation – Time Is Not On Our Side: Towards Possible Futures’ will be on show at Photo North from 16 October, featuring Bry’s work made during this time alongside other artists.

Street Level are partners in the project alongside the University of Oulu’s Oulanka Research Station, the University of Oulu’s Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, the KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre Art Center, and the Oulu Art Museum.


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