Extraordinary Portraits

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Renowned artists paint portraits of people with extraordinary stories.

Where skills meet stories, hosted by Tinie. Artists create breathtaking portraits of people with incredible personal and powerful stories - creating a picture of modern Britain.

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Tinie Tempah

Christy Lee Rogers

David Metcalf

Nav Raman

Ali Quirk

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Extraordinary Portraits: Series 1: Episode 2

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BBC One - Extraordinary Portraits, Series 1, Episode 2

Christy Lee Rogers takes a model with albinism on a breathtaking underwater photoshoot.

Photographer Christy Lee Rogers meets Cee Cee, a model with albinism, and helps her work through her struggles with self-belief by taking her on a breathtaking underwater photoshoot.

Extraordinary Portraits sees musician and art collector Tinie challenge noted portrait artists to paint or photograph members of the public who have extraordinary stories.

Celebrated photographer Christy Lee Rogers helps Cee Cee, a model with albinism, on her journey from self-proclaimed ugly duckling to elegant swan. Cee Cee shares her struggles with how she is perceived by the outside world, and Christy helps Cee Cee to love herself as she is and find the natural beauty she hid for so many years by taking her on a breathtaking underwater photoshoot.

Extraordinary Portraits: Series 1

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Series bringing portraiture into the mainstream by creatively matching people with extraordinary stories with some of the world’s most distinctive portrait artists.

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