This is a portrait I took of Betty Boothroyd when she was deputy Speaker of the House of Commons ( She would move on to become the first female speaker of the House of Commons). It was a commissioned portrait taken for a national publication to illustrate a feature about her role. It was created it in the garden of her home in in the South Cambridgeshire village of Thriplow. I opted for a low angle of view so that she was standing over the viewer, my aim was to show how poerful a person in politics she was and as such across the UK as a whole. I used Ilford XP4 film uprated to 800ASA printed on Ilford multi-grade paper. Baroness Boothroyd (Born 8 October 1929, Dewsbury, Died 26 February 2023, Cambridge) was a British politician who served as a member of Parliament for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000. A lifelong member of the Labour Party.
