Robby Ogilvie

b. 1986, Edinburgh, Scotland

Education

  • MA Contemporary Art Theory (Distinction)


    Edinburgh College of Art

  • BSc (Hons) Product Design Engineering


    Heriot-Watt University

Awards

2026

  • Winner, Sony World Photography Awards
    Open Competition, Object
    Image: Colour Divides

2025–26

  • Global Award Winner, RED
    i-D Magazine x Ray Ban
    Image: Spiral

Selected Exhibitions

2027

  • Ukraine, Documenting the War (touring exhibition)


    Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, UK (2026). Touring to Kyiv, Ukraine and European venues including Kulturbunker, Stuttgart (2027), Venice (2027), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2028)

2026

  • Venice Photo Lab
    Venice, Italy (Oct)

  • Digitalism vol.03
    Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (Sep)

  • Den Internationale– no. 43
    Esbjerg Fotoklub, Esbjerg, Denmark (Sep-Nov)

  • Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition
    Somerset House, London, UK (Apr-May)

  • Ray-Ban RED Residency
    Art Basel, Hong Kong

  • Future Folklore: The Art and Craft of Storytelling
    Maclaurin Art Gallery, Rozelle Estate, Ayr
    Curated by Visual Arts Scotland

  • Whispers in the Shadows
    Radisson Collection, Belgrade, Serbia

2025

  • The Thread That Pulls
    Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

Publications

2026

  • 2026 Sony World Photography Awards Book 
World Photography Organisation, UK

  • Contemporary Photography Around the World

    Soft Publishing, Italy

  • Freedom
    BROAD Publishing, Canada

  • Winter
    Woofermagazine Publishing, USA

  • COURTS
    NOICE Magazine, USA

Artist Books

2025

  • INTERVALS: VOL 01

    Hardback artist book

  • COURTS


    Photographic zine

  • Spirit of Place series

    Tokyo, Hong Kong, Naples, South Africa

    All available at:
robbyogilvie.com/store

Press

2026

  • International media coverage following the Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition win including The Guardian, Forbes, The Atlantic, National Geographic, BBC, The Telegraph, Euronews, MSN, News24, ArtMag, This Is Colossal, PetaPixel, Digital Camera World and Amateur Photographer.

    Forthcoming features in: Royal Photographic Society, Amateur Photography Magazine. Selected press: robbyogilvie.com/press

Selected Earlier Exhibitions

  • Gone Fishing

    Dok Artist Space, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Salontology

    Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Edinburgh Art Fair

    VabLab Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Earlier Curatorial Projects

2011-2016

  • Blurred Boundaries


    Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • They Do Things Differently There


    Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Past Present Future


    Henderson Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Unco Site


    Edinburgh Art Festival Commission, Edinburgh, Scotland