The Victorian craze for the photograph transformed the way we capture images and mirrors our own modern-day fascination for recording the world around us.

This exhibition provided an opportunity to meet the pioneers of photography. Visitors could follow the cross-channel competition between photographic trailblazers Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot, enter the world of the 1851 Great Exhibition and see some of the world’s first stereophotographs. Visitors got insight into the collecting craze of the carte-de-visite and discovered the fascinating stories of the people behind the pictures, including Hill and Adamson’s beautiful images of Victorian Edinburgh.