Welcome to your local community website...
Queen's Park boxers feature in photo competition
Boxer from a Queen's Park gym are to feature in a prestigious photography exhibition.
Student Inzajeano Latif, 34, was inspired to enter a competition with pictures he took of women training at the All Stars Boxing Gym, in Harrow Road.
More than 64,000 pictures were submitted to the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, but only 60 made the exhibition including three by Mr Latif.
The prints, entitled Female Boxers, featured in his final degree show for a BA in photography at Middlesex University.
He is now studying for an MA.
He got in touch with the All Stars Boxing Gym and spent every Sunday there for three months, photographing the women boxers.
He said: "It's about how women are looked at, how men look at women and how women look at themselves."
Mr Latif was away in Turkey on a commission when he found out his work had made the grade, and would be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery along with the other winners.
"I had an email and I was just over the moon," he said.
"I think it's the largest prize for portraits in Europe, if not the world."
His prints, and others in the competition, will go on display at the National Portrait Gallery, in St Martin's Place, West End, from November until February, 2010.
The keen snapper came to photography after initially starting out in the fashion industry.
"Photography for me is a more powerful way of allowing people to see what I see in the world.
"I'm all about really honest work. I want people to walk away from my work thinking about where they stand in this world."
We'd like to hear from you. Send your stories, pics and videos
Leave a comment