Examining the contemporary experience of young people's migration to Britain, Different Worlds is a companion exhibition to Between Worlds: Voyagers to Britain 1700-1850, open at the National Portrait Gallery, London through 17 June.

A fascinating exhibition telling the stories of travellers to Britain who caused widespread excitement, interest and curiosity in London's social circles, is open at the National Portrait Gallery through 17 June 2007.

This display of fourteen famous subjects from the 1880s and 1890s celebrates the acquisition of a much larger lost archive of prints found in a provincial saleroom and generously donated to the National Portrait Gallery by John Morton Morris. The full acquisition consisted of over 90 prints reflecting celebrities in the world of politics, music, theatre, art and sport.

Faith and Church celebrates the rich spiritual diversity of contemporary England. In ten newly commissioned portraits profiling the leaders and representatives of the main faiths in this country, the sitters were invited to pose in environments that reflect their spiritual life.

In March 2003, as Tony Blair took the final steps towards leading the nation to war with Iraq, award-winning photojournalist Nick Danziger and Times Literary Supplement editor Peter Stothard were given thirty days of unprecedented access to the Prime Minister and his closest aides.

Born as a small clothes shop on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco in 1969, 'the Gap' expanded to become the number one retail shop in America with over three thousand outlets worldwide. In 1988, the company launched the latest of its advertising campaigns - 'Individuals of Style' - bold black and white photographs of famous faces wearing Gap items, combined with their own clothes to create a portrait of each individual's personal style.

Face of Fashion is a major exhibition focusing on the portraits of five outstanding fashion photographers from Europe and America: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott, Corinne Day, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi and Mario Sorrenti. It is the first exhibition of its kind, celebrating the innovation and diversity of current fashion portraiture.

The fifth exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery's acclaimed Reaching Out, Drawing In programme, Cherish looks at the family photo album from the perspective of Chinese families living in the UK today. The exhibition is on view through 11 March 2007, admission is free, the exhibition is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

In a new display of iconic photographic portraits and album covers tracing the band's inventive use of their public image, the National Portrait Gallery celebrates the long career of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe as Pet Shop Boys, the most successful duo in British pop history.

'Being single, and having some money, and having the time - having no men, you see' was how the writer Ivy Compton-Burnett rather bluntly explained why so many women were writing fiction after the First World War. The photographic portraits in this display were made in the period 1920 to1960 when the majority of fiction published was written by women. This phenomenon can also be explained by increased access to formal education and society's growing acceptance of the working woman.