![[Self-portrait], 1996](/files/5/e/2/e/i2030-slq.jpg "[Self-portrait], 1996")
The exhibition Reveries: Photography and mortality is a powerful display which brings together images that depict the last phase of people's lives.
Fiona aims to create a dangerous situation with a flood of water on the paper, forcing each work to the point where it can fail, and then rescuing it.
Penny Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2016 Prize.
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
Chris O'Doherty, also known as Reg Mombassa, is best-known for his Mambo imagery but he also paints a lot of self portraits.
Joanna Gilmour describes how artist Sam Leach works on a small scale to grand effect.
Penny Grist on motivation, method and melancholy in the portraiture of Darren McDonald.
An exploration of national identity in the Canadian context drawn from the symposium Face to Face at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2004.
Long after the portraitist became indifferent to her, and died, a beguiling portrait hung over its subject.
Sarah Engledow describes the fall-out once Brett Whiteley stuck Patrick White’s list of his loves and hates onto his great portrait of the writer.
Angus Trumble reflects on the force of nature that was Helena Rubinstein.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life and times of convict-turned-artist William Buelow Gould.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Dr Anne Sanders NPG Curatorial Researcher investigated the lives of the pioneering psychologists whose portraits are featured in Inner Worlds.
