National Portrait Gallery

The National portrait gallery has some of the most refined and contemporary art going at this current time. There are thousands of amateur photographers that are able to include themselves amongst this fantastic body of work by professionals.

The gallery inside had be laid out and styled to separate work out around a few different room linked all together in a circuit. All of the pictures were mounted and framed the same, which linked in with the wall colour and the skirting boards.

In 2011 the competition attracted nearly 6,000 submissions in which were taken from over 2,400 photographers based all around the world. There were then sixty pieces of work for the exhibition rooms, four in which were prize winners and the winner of the EllE commission.

First prize was awarded to Jooney Woodward for Harriet and Gentleman jack.

Woodward Born in London, 1979 and grew up in Dorset, eventually returning to the Capital to study Graphic design at Camber well college of Arts. She specialized in photography in her final year.

Her winning piece is of 13-year-old Harriet Power, a steward at the Royal Welsh Agricultural show. The photograph was taken in the guinea pig judging enclosure.

Maja Daniels is a photographer who works all around the world. He is a Swedish photographer currently base in London. After studying journalism and photography his work then focused on social documentary and portraiture on human relations in a western contemporary environment.

‘By using sociology as a frame of research and approach in my photographic work, I find it a good combination when trying to focus on the interaction between man and society and to combine photography and the written word.’

Here is a photograph taken from the Internet of the national Portrait gallery 2011. From the picture you can see the design and style of the image layout and themes.

On the wall in the corner, second from left you can see two images taken of twins Monette and Mandy, Born in France, currently living there, the photograph was taken by professional photographer Maja Daniels. The series of images with the twins was taken around their hometown, always wearing the same outfit and hair.


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