Hold Still : A Portrait of Our Nation in 2020
Moving online exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery of 100 photographs of people taken during the first Covid lockdown. The works were a result of an open call for entries on three themes helpers and heroes, your new normal and acts of kindness. from which 100 were picked by a committee led by the Duchess of Cambridge. The pictures are online with commentaries written by the photographer or subject and are very moving. If it’s not a cliché every picture tells a story. From the first picture “Glass Kisses” by Steph James of a baby holding a hand up to an old lady who kisses it on the other side of a window, I was hooked! A number of pictures seem to have been taken as part of projects such as Sarah Wood’s “Ruth, Danial and Scarlet in Lockdown” where she has photographer people around Lewes in a series on furloughed friendship and Kenny Glover’s “On Your Doorstep” part of a series of family portraits to fund raid for Marie Curie Hospices. ...