From the Director of the Glasgow Gallery of Photography There is a conversation the photography world needs to have more openly: how independent galleries like the Glasgow Gallery operate, who pays for exhibitions, what artists are being asked to contribute, and what it actually takes to create a space where photography can be seen, discussed, and taken seriously. At the Glasgow Gallery of Photography, we believe these questions deserve honest answers. Not marketing language,

ree artist talk with award-winning documentary portrait photographer Steve Sloan, sharing stories from his travels, his return to photography after retirement, and the ethics of documentary photography, with a Q&A session.

Every year, as we begin planning our exhibition programme, we try to create opportunities for photographers to explore different aspects of Photography. Some themes encourage storytelling, others celebrate people or places, while some invite photographers to slow down and look more closely at the world around them. Our June exhibitions, Still Life / Found Objects and Monochrome, do exactly that. At first glance, these two exhibitions may seem quite different. One focuses on o