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Shergill: Power of photography

By: Eastern Eye Staff

by Amit Roy RAM SHERGILL has gone from strength to strength since winning the prize for photogra­phy in Eastern Eye’s inaugural Arts Culture Thea­tre Awards in 2016. The National Portrait Gallery has just acquired four of his portraits of the late singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse, who died in 2011, aged only 27. The gallery, which is planning an exhibition on Winehouse, wants to add Shergill’s photographs to its permanent collection. That is a reflection of his immense talents because it acquires only “the work of significant portrait photographers”. Last Saturday (14), when I dropped in to see his exhibition…

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