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

  • Benjamin Hall Photography Award - Shortlist
    Image(s): Colour Divides, Subway Stories

  • National Geographic Traveller Awards - Shortlist
    Urban Category, Image: Colour Divides

  • 23rd International Photography Awards - Official Selection
    Image: Colour Divides (overall winner announced 22nd August)

  • Architecture Photography Awards - Finalist

    Image: Spectrum

  • Urban Photography Awards - Shortlist
    Image(s): Colour Divides, Subway Stories, Temporary Monument

2025–26

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

Selected Exhibitions

2027

  • Lost In Translation - Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) Art Festival

    Jazeera Al Hamra Heritage Village, United Arab Emirates

  • Ukraine, Documenting the War (touring exhibition)


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

2026

  • Venice Photo Lab VIII - Guest Artist
    Venice, Italy (Oct)

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

  • URBAN Photography Awards - 13th Trieste Photo Festival
    Trieste Airport, Trieste, Italy (Oct)

  • Perpetual Motion
    An Lanntair, Stornoway,  Scotland (Oct-Dec)

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

  • TRUTH(S) – Cape Town Photography Festival
    Aspire Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (Sep)

  • Synapse Lab - Guest Artist
    TAPANCO Gallery, Puebla, Mexico (Aug)

  • Making Voices Heard - Chester Photography Festival
    Grosvenor Museum, Chester, UK

  • Beam Me Up, This Place Kinda Sucks
    Islington Mill Gallery, Manchester, UK

  • Benjamin Hall Photography Awards
    Allen Hall Gallery, Norfolk, UK

  • On The Road
    Versus Arts Gallery, London, UK

  • Sony World Photography Awards - Travelling Exhibition
    Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini, Milan, Italy 

    Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (TOP Museum), Tokyo, Japan

    Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France 

  • A Seat At The Table 
    South Block Gallery, Glasgow

  • National Geographic Traveller UK Awards Exhibition
    Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, UK

  • Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition
    Somerset House, London, UK

  • Ray-Ban RED Residency
    Art Basel, Hong Kong

  • Future Folklore: The Art and Craft of Storytelling
    Maclaurin Art Gallery, Rozelle Estate, Ayr

  • 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

  • Color of Noise
    Ephemere, Japan

  • 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, Royal Photographic Society, Amateur Photography Magazine and more.

Selected Earlier Exhibitions

2011-2016

  • Gone Fishing

    Dok Artist Space, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Salontology

    Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Edinburgh Art Fair

    VabLab Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Selected 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

Published Writing

2026

  • That’s Not Real Camera
    Essay Project, Scottish Society of Artists (SSA)