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The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018 @ the National Portrait Gallery
Always look on the bleak side of life
Rule one is that, in modern photography, it is forbidden to smile. Photographing anyone smiling instantly leads to your cameras being confiscated. Photographing anyone laughing leads to instant banishment.
Grifton from the series Perfect Strangers by Nigel Clarke © Nigel Clarke
Photography is a serious business. Life is all about being isolated and alienated. A tragic affair. None of the sitters in the 57 photographic portraits on show in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018 is smiling, let alone laughing. Most have expressions of mute despair, sullen passivity, stare plaintively at the camera or mournfully off into the distance.
Portrait of Marta Weiss and her daughter Penelope from the series Artfully Dressed: Women in the Art World by Carla van de Puttelaar 2017 © Carla van de Puttelaar
Remember that awful movie, Dumb and D • Original article in German Follow Backstage on Twitter: @Baeckstage_ch Google translated from German: Jeremy Irons:. “I sing only for friends or at the pub” On the day of the gala premiere of “Night Train to Lisbon” Oscar winner Jeremy Irons met at the Bellevue Hotel in Bern for an interview. His immense presence was already being felt from a distance. Irons sat on a chair in front of the open balcony doors and smoking a cigarette when I entered the room. Without being asked then, Irons grabbed a chair and placed it next to his and put the receiving device on his right. This rootedness and öppenhet eller transparens , he also presented in the conversation about the Bernese nightlife. Miscast in his “Night Train to Lisbon” and his role in the TV series “Borgia” Backstage: What memories do you have of the filming here in Bern last year? Jeremy Irons: Oh, very happy memories. But short. We were only here for two days. Still, it was wonderful t •