9 – 18 June 2020

Image of Hold Still Competition - National Portrait Gallery

This competition is an opportunity for you to reflect on your personal experience of lockdown and the Covid-19 outbreak. What story will you tell and what emotions and experiences will you show? Your photograph must involve/show people, and can be captured on phones or cameras.

Visit this website for some top tips on making portraits in lockdown: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z43s2v4 

The National Portrait Gallery holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world! Every year it holds a Portrait Award, follow the website link, explore the exhibition and vote on your own favourite. Let's see if it is the same as ours. https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/bp-portrait-award-2020/virtual-exhibition