Captured on camera: Super Furries and Steve Jones
Post categories: Exhibitions,ÌýPhotography
| 09:00 UK time, Thursday, 29 April 2010
The winning photographs from this year's National Photographic Portrait Commission are now on show at the , Cardiff.
Striking portraits of one of Britian's leading scientists Steve Jones, by Tom Pope, and Welsh band Super Furry Animals, by Sophie Keyworth, will be on display at the museum until July.
Steve Jones - Talking Evolution by Tom Pope.
The National Photographic Portrait Commission is an annual competition led by the museum in conjunction with the National Portrait Gallery. A committee selects two or three winners from the applicants and commissions a new portrait from them for the national collection.
Tom Pope, a recent graduate of the Swansea Metropolitan University, produced Steve Jones - Talking Evolution, in which he captured the scientist seemingly in a conversation with a skeleton of a primate. As mentioned previously, Pope's first solo exhibition has recently come to a close at the in Swansea.
The Super Furry Animals, backstage at the Coal Exchange, Cardiff (20th November 2009) by Sophie Keyworth.
Music has always been a central theme in Sophie Keyworth's work. A recent graduate from Coleg Sir Gâr, she snapped the Super Furry Animals behind the scenes before a gig at the Coal Exchange in Cardiff last year.
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