I had a last minute email from Koray of Maybeldner.com blog to attend with him the Audrey Hepburn exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery earlier last month. I was so excited to attend the event with him and even better; admiring the wonderful portraits before the official opening time in peace with other fellow bloggers and journalists. I can see Koray’s slight frustration that there aren’t many male bloggers about so I do feel his pain haha; but he should own that niche! This was probably the first time I met Koray as I have have been contributing towards his blog for a year now so it was great to finally meet him.
The gallery was filled with archived portraits of Audrey Hepburn, some are well known to us that have been featured publicly, and some were private photographs of her growing up which we had the pleasure to witness. I had no idea that Audrey was a ballerina and here there were; her very own pair of ballerinas displayed in a glass box for NPG. Honestly I didn’t grow up watching all of her movies but she remains an icon in my eyes as one of the most fashionable, graceful and elegant woman of all time. She’s a true classic beauty and I was in awe of her stunning photographs and the photographs were well put together in a timeline – I was able to get to know her through the journey of photographs from her childhood to her final moments; I felt connected to her once again!
Audrey is a true global icon, if not, a Hollywood royalty and the National Portrait Gallery have done a fab job to portray her life in a series of intimate, career changing and iconic photos. I hope you have enjoyed all of my selection of favourite photographs of Audrey Hepburn, the global icon. The Audrey Hepburn exhibition ends in October but for more exhibitions you can visit NPG. Thanks Koray for the invite to this wonderful event; you can read his post here.
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