Visitors to a new exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland can put their own self portrait into the display.
Facing the World: Self Portraits from Rembrandt to Ai Weiwei allows visitors to have their photo taken in a passport photo-style booth and then be displayed in the show alongside masterpieces from more than six centuries of art.
People can take pictures of themselves in a photo booth installation, called Flick EU, outside the main show rooms, at the cost of £1.
The image is then displayed inside the exhibition on four screens.
The second installation, Flick EU Mirror, involves standing on a pad on the floor, a camera takes a picture and as you watch in a large screen, your image dissolves into another image which is made from thousands of other pre-made images.
Imogen Gibbon, chief curator and deputy director at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, said: "They are art installation, art works, categorised as artworks and created by artists.
"To illustrate it, in Germany the show was called Ich Bin Hier, 'I am here', so I suppose that would speak for all the artists represented, and you as a visitor.
"For me, seeing [the art] by Rembrandt and David Wilkie, and then to see yourself engaging with these images is wonderful."
The show contains around 150 works, including many modern and contemporary works from the NGS, arranged in five sections.
Self portraits include famous works by Rembrandt, John Bellany and Wilkie, as well as more contemporary works by Douglas Gordon, Alison Watt, Ken Currie, Sarah Lucas and Annie Lennox.
The show is a collaboration between the galleries (NGS), the Musee de Beaux Art in Lyon, France and the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The show also features work by Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, and Marina Abramovic.
It runs from July 16 to October 16.
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