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100 Pioneering Women

1 May 2018

I was in the National Portrait Gallery the other day to pick up the 100 Pioneering Women book which as the title suggests is a selection from their collection. What is interesting was the work chosen to illustrate the entry for Germaine Greer. They could have gone with the photograph by Polly Borland but instead…
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017

7 January 2018

View this post on Instagram A post shared by PatrickPhotos (@patrickphotosuk) I saw this poster for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 on the tube yesterday and it reminded me how cross I was when I first saw this image of One Of Them Is A Human #1 (Erica: Erato Ishiguro Symbiotic Human-Robot Interaction…
Exposed: The Naked Portrait

16 January 2016

This week I managed to go to Exposed: The Naked Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery, a one room exhibition of unclothed portraits from their collection. What struck me glancing round the room was the proportion of women to men. Out of the seventeen people in the room only seven were men. Not a massive…