Clare Freestone is Curator of Photography at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She is the author of Yevonde: Life and Colour (London: National Portrait Gallery, 2023) and has contributed to Love Stories: Art, Passion & Tragedy (London: National Portrait Gallery, 2020), Photographs in Dialogue UAE – 1971 – UK (London: National Portrait Gallery, 2020) and Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer (London: National Portrait Gallery, 2011).