RSA Elizabeth Lornie Photography Award: Deadline 20 September 2026. 5pm

  • About

    Caroline Douglas, documentation of The Sublime Truths of Science are no longer confined to the wealthy and the learned - installation of camera obscura, Old Observatory House, Collective, Edinburgh

    About

    The RSA Elizabeth Lornie Photography Award (£5,000) is an award for artists working in still photography in Scotland. The award is funded by the Elizabeth Lornie Charitable Trust (formally The Morton Charitable Trust) and administered by the Royal Scottish Academy and comprises:

     

    • A monetary award of £5,000 to research, develop and produce a new body of work in still photography (digital and/or analogue) 
    • Exhibition of selected completed work, along with other RSA winners, at the Royal Scottish Academy at a future date
    • Acquisition of work into the prestigious RSA Permanent Collections, a collection of National Significance in Scotland.

     
  • Eligibility

    Oana Stanciu, Severance (detail), giclee print

    Eligibility

    • Artists must be working in still photography (digital and/or analogue)
    • Artists must have been born in Scotland, or have studied at a Scottish art school, or have been resident in Scotland for at least 3 consecutive years.
    • Undergraduate or postgraduate students are not eligible.

     

    How to apply

     

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  • Previous Winners

    Daniel Cook, Love Letters From Aberdeenshire - Ricky Babes, 2021, archival pigment print

    Previous Winners

    RSA Elizabeth Lornie Photography Award

    • Caroline Douglas, 2025

      

    RSA Lens-based Media Award

    • IRVINE & SPENCE, 2024

     

    Listed below are recipients of the RSA Morton Award, our previous award for lens-based media between 2006 and 2023: 

    • Aqsa Arif, 2023
    • Flannery O'kafka, 2022
    • Oana Stanciu, 2021
    • Sekai Machache, 2020
    • Daniel Cook, 2019
    • John Wallace, 2018
    • Mairi Lafferty, 2017
    • Paul Duke, 2016
    • Gair Dunlop, 2015
    • Alicia Bruce, 2014
    • Oliver Mezger, 2013
    • ROGER + REID, 2012
    • Paul Rooney, 2011
    • Christine Borland, 2010
    • Philip Braham, 2009
    • Rory Donaldson, 2008
    • Leena Nammari, 2007
    • Alexander & Susan Maris, 2006

     

    Banner image: Flannery O'kafka, detail from Wake Wake Island Book, 2024, pigment prints from 35mm slide film on transparency paper, tactile text and photographic prints, 35 pages

  • Return to Opportunities
  • ROGER + REID, End of Message, 2013, film still [2014.659] (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Christine Borland, Cast from Nature, 2011, film still [2019.046] (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Paul Duke, No Ruined Stone (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    John Wallace, ROADSPACE, 2019, installation photograph of film projection [2023.0036.1] (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Philip Braham, Falling Shadows in Arcadia (The Offering), 2010, inkjet print [2011.020] (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Alicia Bruce, Sim Man, NY Sim, Bellvue Hospital, Manhattan, New York, 2014, archival photographic print [2015.067] (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Rory Donaldson, SQTIME USA, 2009, digital C-type gloss photograph [2010.034] (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Paul Rooney, La Décision Doypack, 2008, film still, 16mm film transfered to DVD. Commissioned by Radar and Matt's Gallery. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    ROGER + REID, End of Message, 2013, film still [2014.659]