With this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe coming to an end on Monday, we’ve taken a look back in our archives at photos of the world’s largest arts festival taken in the 2010s.
With us already looking back at the Fringe in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, we finish our round-up in the 2010s. The usual sights of the Fringe were captured by our photographers in the 2010s, including young comedians who went onto bigger and better things after appearing in Edinburgh, including Kevin Bridges, Josie Long and James Acaster. While, top talent including Succession actor Brian Cox and children’s author Julia Donaldson were also in town.
1. Edinburgh Beatles
The final day of the 2012 Fringe Festival. Pictured are some performers packing up and heading for home. Photo: Jane Barlow
2. Rising star
A young Kevin Bridges is presented with the award for best Fringe comedy by Grant and Arlene at the Radio Forth Awards in 2010. The Glasgow comedian is now a household name and has played to thousands of people all over the world including a record-breaking 16 sold out nights at the Hydro last year. Photo: Ian Georgeson
3. Bright lights
Crowds gathered on Lothian Road as projections lit up the Usher Hall in Edinburgh as the city's famous Fringe festival season got underway in 2018. Photo: David Cheskin/ PA
4. Award nominee
Comedian James Acaster, who is now a household name and regular on comedy panel TV shows, was a finalist in the 2012 Fosters Comedy Awards at the Fringe, he lost out to winner Doctor Brown. Photo: Ian Rutherford