The Easel

11th August 2026

‘An extremely rare perspective’ – Stuart Fallon on the photography of Sandra George

Stuart Fallon | The Scotsman | 4th August 2026

George is another photographer who never exhibited while alive. British born, she lived in Edinburgh, working as a community worker and photographer for local newspapers. After her death an archive of over 60,000 images was found in her garden shed. Those images depict “the personal and the local” – street protests, children at play, community scenes, self-portraits. They reflect on the agency that individuals have, the power of collective action and “the courage to speak truth to power”.

Portrait of a City review — a nostalgic stroll through a century of the American urban experience

Jackie Wullschlager | Financial Times | 3rd August 2026

A “nostalgic” exhibition that surveys a century of American photography. Stieglitz is generally credited with the first modernist photograph in 1907. From there America produced a roll call of great image makers, both men and women. Inevitably, much focus lands on that greatest of all melting pots, New York city. Some famous photographers, being recent immigrants, could empathise with their subjects “energy and appetite for change that is almost tangible”. Says one writer,  “exhilarating”.

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