£25, Hoxton Mini Press, hardback, 320 pages, ISBN: 9781914314346
The latest Portrait of Humanity collection is another moving selection of beautiful contemporary portraits, says Amy Davies
Produced in collaboration with the British Journal of Photography, Portrait of Humanity is now in its fifth volume.
In essence, it’s just like the also annual Portrait of Britain collection, but expands the lens across the globe, not just towards home-grown talent. Though there’s plenty of that in the book, too. Like its British counterpart, it forms both a book and an exhibition.
You’ll find over 200 portraits taken by photographers across the world in this volume, each one being an insight into both the sitter and the photographer. Each also comes with a small story to give you some background about who you’re looking at. The only complaint here is that sometimes it creates more questions than answers – some folk could clearly have an entire book written about them, never mind just a sentence or two.
Writing in the introduction to the book, the BJP’s digital editor, Ravi Ghosh says, ‘These times are defined by instability. It feels like we are at a crossroads, where the path ahead is difficult to navigate. Collectively,
