In portrait photography, the hands can be everything. People talk with their hands often when they’re trying to be very expressive. When someone doesn’t use their hands, it’s a bit odd. And hands can ...

Portrait photographer David Suh says confidence always comes through on camera. Instead of pushing canned poses, Suh asks clients to dance and move to help them feel present in their bodies.

Unlike her 2025 portrait, the first lady's 2017 photo was in color and featured a close-up of her face. The new portrait shows Mrs. Trump standing over a desk with her fingers propped on the top.

But she has, in turn, been a source of inspiration for both staged photography as well as filmmaking — notably, Sofia Coppola has cited “Blue Bow” as a photograph she kept returning to in ...

King Charles Poses in His Kilt for a New Portrait Taken at Balmoral Castle to Celebrate Scottish Burns Night. Marissa Muller. Sat, January 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM UTC. 3 min read.

The intimate Dutch portrait that poses galactic questions. Olivier van Deuren’s "A Young Astronomer," painted around 1685, is in the collection of The National Gallery, London.

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years” June 20 through June 7, 2026. Drawing from the museum’s ...