Edinburgh and East Lothian photographers have secured a rare, private night-time shoot inside Rosslyn Chapel to help their Swedish sister club capture the historic Midlothian landmark.
The resulting 16-photo exhibition, published on Friday 3 July, is now on display on the Rosslyn Chapel website at http://www.rosslynchapel.com/.
It marks the latest chapter in a long-term partnership between Musselburgh Camera Club and Mölnlycke Fotoklubb, based on the outskirts of Gothenburg.
The relationship started when Swedish couple Helen and Martin Lundén joined the Musselburgh club while living in Edinburgh, maintaining the connection when they returned to Sweden.
After a group of Musselburgh members visited Gothenburg in 2019, eight Swedish photographers made a reciprocal trip to Scotland this year.
The group’s priority was to photograph the intricate, 15th-century stone carvings of Rosslyn Chapel, which famously became a global tourism hotspot following the publication of The Da Vinci Code.
Steven Beard, of Musselburgh Camera Club, worked with chapel trustees to arrange private, out-of-hours access to the interior after daily visitors had cleared.
Steven said: “I was delighted when Rosslyn Chapel staff agreed to let them photograph the inside of the Chapel out of hours. This exhibition is the result of that visit.”
The Musselburgh club, which originally launched in the 1960s as the Scottish Electricity Board Camera Club, meets weekly at the Fisherrow Centre. The new joint exhibition can be viewed online for free.
