Lydia Shaffer on Reels

Meet Lydia 🌷 Lydia Carmichael was a former pupil of the Foundling Hospital, who entered the Hospital in 1933. Until 2021, there were no portraits of named foundlings or former pupils on the walls of the Museum. To change that, Lydia was one of five living former pupils who sat for five leading photographers. Lydia sat for David Moore in her former classroom at the Foundling Hospital in Berkhamsted, now a school. This footage is from The Sitting, which recorded three of the encounters between si

The Mayor's Gallery presents "In Plain Sight" a collection of paintings by Lydia Larson