National Portrait Gallery
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Portraits, protest, pride: photography and queerness – Sunil Gupta in conversation with Ghislain Pascal
London’s National Portrait Gallery is hosting a discussion of queerness in photography. And as we have come to expect from what is arguably the first national public gallery in the world that’s dedicated to portraits, it is doing is some style. Taking part will be Sunil Gupta, the judge of this year’s Taylor Wessing Photographic…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘CECIL BEATON’S FASHIONABLE WORLD’, a retrospective of the legendary Vogue photographer, artist, costume designer and illustrator.
Glamour and queerness have long been interesting bedfellows. One of the pioneers of such fabulousness was Sir Cecil Beaton, the iconic British fashion, portrait, and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer, and costume and set designer. This autumn, the multiple Academy and Tony award-winning talent is being honoured by London’s National Portrait Gallery with a…
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Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64 @ The National Portrait Gallery. London
The Beatle (Sir) Paul McCartney played bass guitar in the most successful bands of all time but he also shared primary songwriting with John Lennon. That songwriting partnership with Lennon remains the most successful in history. He was also married to the late Linda McCartney who we believe he met when in the late 1960s,…
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National Portrait Gallery of Australia celebrates WORLDPRIDE 2023 with stunning queer portraiture
Sydney continues to set extraordinarily high standards for 2023 World Pride as each day we keep discovering even more must-see/must-do events. Today it’s the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra who are celebrating Pride by sharing brilliant, beautiful, and bold portraits featuring LGBTQIA+ sitters from their collection, like the one above of Leigh…
