I had every intention of going to see this years BP Portrait Award however other things meant that what was going to be a quiet day in the office turned out not to be. For the time being I will enjoy the catalogue I purchased from the National Portrait Gallery during one of the short…

The National Portrait Gallery sent a tweet on Christmas Eve asking people who follow them what their most memorable moment was over the past twelve months. It got me thinking about all the different things that took place there and what was my NPG moment of 2014. View this post on Instagram A post shared…

I came across The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton during a visit to the National Portrait Gallery bookshop the other day.  I’ve only just started reading it and for me it is a bit of a slow process as it has been written in a fairly academic textbook style. In the introduction the…