Jillian Edelstein: In Focus
Past display archive
14 February - 19 April 2009
Room 41a
Free
Daniel Day-Lewis
by Jillian Edelstein
23 October 2007
NPG x132099
Edelstein was born and grew up in South Africa and trained as a social worker before turning to photojournalism. She began working for the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg and in 1983 she won the Shell Best News Picture of the Year prize. In 1985 Edelstein moved to London and worked for a variety of publications including The Sunday Times, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair and Time magazine.
Several of the portraits shown here come from Edelstein’s Affinities project for which she photographed creative or successful working partnerships from a variety of disciplines. These collaborative couples, appeared as a regular photo slot in the Saturday Telegraph magazine under the title ‘Soul Mates’.
More of Edelstein’s portraits in the Collection can be viewed on the Woodward
Portrait Explorer in the IT Gallery.
Nelson Mandela
by Jillian Edelstein
6 February 1997
NPG x128760
Anne Eleanor Scott-James (Lady Lancaster); Bert Hardy
by Jillian Edelstein
1992
NPG x45383
Colin Jackson; Linford Christie
by Jillian Edelstein
1993
NPG x45384
Damien Hirst; Jay Jopling
by Jillian Edelstein
5 November 1992
NPG x88991
Rufus Sewell
by Jillian Edelstein
2 October 2000
NPG x125006
Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (née Knox)
by Jillian Edelstein
July 1999
NPG P768
Related resources
Related portraits
- Darcey Bussell; Jonathan Cope (NPG P553)
- Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (née Knox) (NPG P768)
- Bruce Robinson (NPG x31012)
- Lennox Lewis (NPG x132438)
- Joan Bakewell (NPG x34141)
- Jack Trevor Story (NPG x34147)
- Rumer Godden (NPG x45375)
- Zoë Wanamaker (NPG x76779)
- Julian Barnes (NPG x45382)
- Anne Eleanor Scott-James (Lady Lancaster); Bert Hardy (NPG x45383)
- Damien Hirst; Jay Jopling (NPG x88991)
- Colin Jackson; Linford Christie (NPG x45384)
- Rose Tremain (NPG x45379)
- John Simpson; Nicholas Snowman (NPG x125008)
- Blur (Alex James; Dave Rowntree; Graham Coxon; Damon Albarn) (NPG x132439)
- Nelson Mandela (NPG x128760)
- Trevor Phillips (NPG x87282)
- Rufus Sewell (NPG x125006)
- Aidan Gillen (NPG x125007)
- Bridget Riley (NPG x88992)
- Simon Pegg (NPG x132098)
- Daniel Day-Lewis (NPG x132099)
- Sue Lloyd-Roberts (NPG x88426)
Related sitters
- Damon Albarn
- Joan Dawson Bakewell (née Rowlands), Baroness Bakewell
- Julian Patrick Barnes
- Darcey Andrea Bussell
- Linford Christie
- Jonathan Cope
- Graham Coxon
- Sir Daniel Day-Lewis
- Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (née Knox)
- Aidan Gillen
- (Margaret) Rumer Godden
- Bert Hardy
- Damien Hirst
- Colin Ray Jackson
- Steven Alexander ('Alex') James
- Jay Jopling
- Lennox Claudius Lewis
- Sue Lloyd-Roberts
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
- Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham)
- (Mark) Trevor Phillips
- Bridget Louise Riley
- Bruce Robinson
- Dave Rowntree
- Anne Eleanor Scott-James (Lady Lancaster)
- Rufus Sewell
- John Simpson (John Cody Fidler-Simpson)
- (Michael) Nicholas Snowman
- Jack Trevor Story
- Dame Rosemary ('Rose') Jane Tremain (née Thomson)
- Zoë Wanamaker