“As a photographer, you are basically only able to create an image of how you see someone rather than maybe what is really there,” says Jenny Lewis, whose portraiture has been published in two books, and whose work was selected for the inaugural Portrait of Britain show
This fascination with the familiar isn’t a new phenomenon, says Phillip Prodger, head of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery and a former judge of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. “We live in a world of the free exchange of imagery and social media and perhaps the photographs that once were considered more private aren’t considered so private anymore. I think people have been making those photographs all along but perhaps not sharing them in that way.”
” I always feel like I am (metaphorically, and sometimes physically) skipping or hopping around a person waiting for the moment I get something interesting from them, waiting for the moment it goes from being quite ordinary to being something powerful or compelling.” Jo Metson Scott, a winner in BJP’s Portrait of Britain 2016, shares how to capture the perfect moment –
“Taking someone’s portrait is always a disruptive and often very awkward event. Everyone has their default portrait pose. The role of the photographer is to push beyond, to find that mysterious intimate moment that only a camera can freeze.”
“Portrait of Britain is a celebration of photography as much as the country’s people. We…
Apptitude Media won two prizes yesterday at the 2016 Professional Publishers Association (PPA)’s Independent Publishers’ Awards.
Bainbridge appeared on BBC Radio London to talk about the 100 selected portraits for the nationwide…
The BJP team envisaged an exhibition by the people, of the people and for the…
We asked you to show us the modern face of Britain. And while much has…
Portrait of Britain is inviting photographers to submit images that reflect the unique heritage and diversity…
