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Street Level Photoworks: ‘Mandela, in Glasgow’ by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert Exhibition


Nelson Mandela holds a press conference in HMP Barlinnie, in Glasgow, 10th June 2002. © Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 2026.

Exhibition featuring photographs of Nelson Mandela’s two visits to Glasgow - 1993 when he came to accept the Freedom of the City, an award which had been bestowed upon him years previously in 1981, when he was still imprisoned in Robben Island, South Africa. Then in 2002 visiting Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was then serving a prison sentence in HMP Barlinnie, convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie Bombing.

The exhibition will be open Monday – Friday 9am till 5pm throughout October.

Location: Glasgow City Chambers, 82 George Square, Glasgow G2 1DU

Booking details: Free

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