Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
If you’ve a little time to spare and you’re in central London over the next few weeks, do pop into the National Portrait Gallery and take a look at the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize...
View ArticleSnapped! One night only at the NPG
Call me a romantic if you will, but there’s something that I find especially appealing about late night museum openings (maybe it’s reading too much Umberto Eco?), and I’m particularly looking forward...
View ArticleIda Kar at the National Portrait Gallery
It was a shame that the NPG couldn’t manage to open the first exhibition devoted to Ida Kar in over fifty years on Tuesday, what with it being International Women’s Day. It would have been fitting for...
View ArticleA Closer Look: David Chancellor
The more observant of Small Aperture’s loyal readers may have noticed that my blogging on Small Aperture has increased as of late. Well I have further bad news for you: I’ll be looking after our dear...
View ArticleTaylor Wessing shortlist announced
The National Portrait Gallery received 6,000 submissions from 2,506 photographers – some amateur, some professional, and some just graduated from art school – for the 2011 Taylor Wessing Photographic...
View ArticleCelebrating a scandal
Scandal ’63 has opened in Room 32 at the National Portrait Gallery, marking the 50th anniversary of the Profumo Affair. If you don’t know the story of the Profumo Affair, it’s something straight out of...
View ArticleFalling out of love with the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize
I had just opened up a new compose window to write my review of this year’s Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition (in short: uninspiring and hackneyed) when someone sent me a link to this BBC...
View ArticleBailey’s Stardust at the NPG
Bailey’s Stardust, an exhibition of over 250 of David Bailey’s portraits, opens today at the National Portrait Gallery, London, where it takes up virtually all of the ground floor. Kate Moss by David...
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