Dav Stewart’s photograph for Tempest’s album Everybody Down will go on display in the exhibition Picture the Poet
A 2013 photograph of a pensive Kate Tempest is the latest album cover image to be acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in London. The NPG, which already owns Mischa Richter’s Back to Black portrait of Amy Winehouse and the Mario Testino shot used for Madonna’s Ray of Light, has added the image from Tempest’s Mercury prize-nominated album Everybody Down to its collection.
The photograph was taken by Dav Stewart who, along with the art director Luke Eastop, has collaborated with Tempest on the cover art for her albums and singles since she was an unsigned artist. The portrait for Everybody Down was taken in a studio set up in the photographer’s east London flat.
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