Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, on Sunday launched a book of photographic portraits taken in the course of Britain’s COVID-19 lockdowns that she mentioned would provide a lasting record of the pandemic.
Kate Middleton, who is married to Prince William, the Queen’s grandson and second in line to the throne, started the project with the National Portrait Gallery final year, inviting people today to submit photographs taken in the course of Britain’s initial coronavirus lockdown.
A panel of judges such as Kate chose one hundred portraits from more than 31,000 entries, which have been shown in digital and neighborhood exhibitions just before the book was announced.
“Through ‘Hold Still’, I wanted to use the power of photography to create a lasting record of what we were all experiencing – to capture individuals’ stories and document significant moments for families and communities as we lived through the pandemic,” Kate wrote in the introduction to the book.
The book, referred to as “Hold Still: A Portrait of Our Nation in 2020”, will be accessible from May 7, precisely a year just after the project started.
Net proceeds will be split involving the National Portrait Gallery and the British mental wellness charity Mind.