Hanging in the National Portrait Gallery
- Karl
- Sep 16, 2025
- 1 min read
20 odd years ago, I photographed the Roma artist by the name of Daniel Baker — a portrait that captured him and his uncompromising presence.
Recently, I discovered that my image has lived on in a new form: the celebrated Polish Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas has reimagined my photograph in acrylics and fabrics.
She now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery while I still hang out in front of the local KFC. lolz
It’s actually a rare and humbling experience to see how an image made by me years ago can take on a new life, carrying forward into another artist’s vision and into one of the world’s great cultural spaces.
I asked AI what they thought and they replied "Art doesn’t stop at the click of a shutter or the brushstroke of a painter — it circulates, transforms, and connects across time, voices, and mediums.
It makes me very proud but also abit jel.
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