The National Portrait Gallery presents a display of photographs by Emma Hardy of exceptional young Britons. Chosen from a variety of fields and disciplines, each individual represented has been selected on the basis of their talent and inspirational achievement. Timed to coincide with Enterprise Week and part of the Make Your Mark Campaign, the display and its accompanying website is an integrated project between photographer Emma Hardy, writer Jenny Dyson and the National Portrait Gallery.

"What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing: you wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought." David Hockney

As part of the National Portrait Gallery's 150th Anniversary celebrations, this display presents new photographic acquisitions to the public for the first time. Coinciding with this year's Photographic Portrait Prize which showcases the best in contemporary portraiture, Photographs 1965-2006 looks back over five decades of excellence in a celebration of photography from the recent past and the present.

In the last years of his life Dublin-born artist Thomas Frye (1710 - 1762) published two remarkable series of mezzotints - 'Fancy Heads' - highly original life-size images of men and women, notable for their striking poses, enigmatic expressions, fashionable and exotic costume.