Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Shen Jiawei was born in China. During the Cultural Revolution he laboured in the Great Northern Wilderness, but even as he worked there, he gained recognition as an artist.
Exile burnishes love’s bond
National Photographic Portrait Prize curator, Sarah Engledow, finds reward in a difficult task and ultimately uncovers the essence of portraiture.
Sarah Engledow picks some favourites from a decade of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
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