Photography highlights
Your national collection contains over 55,000 works with a focus on historic photography and another on our ever-growing contemporary photography holdings. We aim to illuminate the art of photography with particular relation to Scotland. In this collection you can explore highlights by photographers including Julia Margaret Cameron, Thomas Annan, Eve Arnold, Lee Miller, Paul Strand and the pioneers of Scottish photography – David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson.

Greyfriars' Churchyard, the Dennistoun Monument with David Octavius Hill and Mrs Millar
David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson

Hardeep Singh Kohli, b. 1969. Writer, radio and TV presenter
broad daylight (Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie)