Self Portraits: from Paint to Digital Photography and the Selfie

While 'the selfie' is being billed as a massive contemporary phenomenon, photographers did not wait for the invention of digital smart phones or selfie sticks in order to turn the camera on themselves.

Artist and National Gallery lecturer Aliki Braine explores the invention and rise of self-portraiture from humble beginnings as hidden painted faces to the obsessive documenting and displaying of our own digital images. Morning event, with coffee and pastries.