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Portrait of Britain: Displaying the UK's diversity

News imageAndrea Zvadova A portrait of a man with albinismAndrea Zvadova
As part of her series called Pigment, Andrea Zvadova highlights the natural beauty of people such as Leo from London.
News imageJon Tonks A woman in a colourful jacket stands in the countryside and holds a hawkJon Tonks
Ruth Barratt lives on Easdale Island, one of the Slate islands off the west coast of Scotland. Situated in the Firth of Lorn, it is the smallest permanently inhabited island of the Inner Hebrides with a population of around 60 people, and a handful of hawks.
News imageSarah Lee A woman holds a surfboard whilst an Orthodox Jewish family gather behind herSarah Lee
Gwyn Haslock stands on the beach at Praa Sands, Cornwall. Aged 71, she has surfed almost every day for the past 40 years. Photographer Sarah Lee has said that the Orthodox Jewish family simply appeared behind Haslock as she stood on the rocks. "They moved about her for a few moments entirely absorbed in their own family, unaware of us and then moved on. It was a wonderfully incongruous, and very British, moment."
News imageJorn Tomter A group of children sit outside their houseJorn Tomter
Jorn Tomter photographed this group of siblings outside their home in Clapton waiting for their mum to come home. The portrait is part of an ongoing documentation of the residents of this area of north-east London.
News imageRick Pushinsky A family stand outside their houseRick Pushinsky
Rick Pushinsky's picture shows a refugee family from Darfur who have been offered the chance to resettle in the UK as part of the government's Gateway programme, which aims to house those who cannot return to their country of origin.
News imageThea Geldi A young man with a full face of makeup posesThea Geldi
This portrait of Roland Bray, a 24-year-old drag queen from Truro in Cornwall, was taken by Thea Geldi. The image is part of a series inspired by the political climate during the election of Donald Trump in the USA.
News imageSian Davey A small girl sits on the sofa and looks in to the cameraSian Davey
Sian Davey's daughter Alice sits on the sofa while recovering from a virus. Alice was born with Down's syndrome, and Davey portrays the normality of their everyday family life in her intimate photographs.
News imageCharlie Gray Warwick Davis stands in an empty wardrobe and looks at the cameraCharlie Gray
Charlie Gray photographed the actor Warwick Davis behind the Holiday Inn hotel in Birmingham for The Hollywood Reporter.
News imageAndy Lo Po A dancer poses in front of a plain backdropAndy Lo Po
Andy Lo Po took this shot of Mickaella from the Candoco Dance Company, which is a group of disabled and non-disabled dancers who push boundaries to change the perceptions of dance.
News imageMark Atiken An elderly man stands in his kitchenMark Atiken
John stands in the kitchen of his house in Cressingham Gardens Estate, London. Mark Atiken's image is from his series called Sanctum Ephemeral, about life on a housing estate undergoing regeneration.