It’s photography season at the City Art Centre, with three extensive exhibitions that explore Scottish life from a variety of perspectives.

Taking place across all three floors of the Centre, each exhibition draws on a wealth of Scotland’s past and present, including rural life, feminism, social injustice and aspects of Edinburgh culture that are either rapidly fading out of view or have gone neglected. Here’s what’s in store for you when you pay your next visit to the City Art Centre.

Glean: Early 20^th Century Women Filmmakers and Photographers in Scotland

First up is Glean, which exhibits the pioneering work of 14 women filmmakers and photographers from throughout the 20^th century. Spanning all of Scotland, from Galloway to Shetland, the exhibition features 125 photographs, eight films and 35 related artefacts, drawn from 17 archives. This is a unique journey through rural and city communities, offering a rare opportunity to view the work of women who have hitherto gone unrecognised in their field. 

Glean: Early 20^th Century Women Filmmakers and Photographers in Scotland runs until Sunday 12 March.

Edinburgh: A Lost World

This exhibition of Ron O’Donnell’s work brings the Edinburgh-based photographer’s images together for the first time. Included are previously unseen depictions of interiors including prison cells, public toilets, launderettes, greengrocers and fishmongers spanning the 1970s and 80s, plus more taken in the early 21st Century. Stirling was born in 1952 and his shots capture a world in flux, its changing face reflected in the altering cityscape of the Scottish capital.

O’Donnell said, ‘I started taking some of these photographs of interiors as a student. Shooting them became a compulsion, a desire to record on film a vanishing city. In retrospect, I was privileged to have been allowed to document these places, given access to behind-the-scenes areas, through the generosity of the various owners. I hope that the images I have captured will become a fascinating document of this great city.’

Edinburgh: A Lost World runs until Sunday 5 March.

Paul Duke: No Ruined Stone

Consisting of 38 large-scale black and white photographs, No Ruined Stone is a document of the Muirhouse area of Edinburgh as it undergoes significant urban regeneration. The images themselves consist primarily of residential areas and buildings as well as portraits of Muirhouse residents. At a time when working class voices are largely absent from the cultural conversation, this vital exhibition underscores the material constraints placed on individuals in areas of social inequality and poverty.

Paul Duke: No Ruined Stone runs until Sunday 19 February.