Annie Leibovitz’s latest show features portraits of women from Caitlyn Jenner

The name of the presentation commissioned by UBS is “WOMEN: New Portraits”, and it’s a follow-up to her 1999 project with Susan Sontag.

She’s captured numerous world’s most influential women on camera, but the photographer added at the press preview that German chancellor Angela Merkel would be the next female she’d most want to photograph.

Instead, she was taken aback to discover that Her Majesty does her own hair and make-up, describing her as “feisty” during their meeting. After that, the exhibition will travel to Tokyo, San Francisco, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mexico, Istanbul, Frankfurt, New York and Zurich; keep an eye on the UBS site for more details.

Annie Leibovitz’s “Women: New Portraits” opens 16 January in London and will run through 7 February 2016. In 2012, she was the recipient of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts and the Wexner Prize.

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The photographer said that for her, that shoot encompassed the empathy involved in taking portraits.

Interestingly, though, the exhibition at this stage is still a work in progress, and will expand throughout the coming year as Leibovitz photographs prominent women in each of the host cities.

In the 1980s she began exploring portraiture with photographs for Vanity Fair and Vogue.

The exhibition also features photographs from Leibovitz’s previous project, including a photograph of her mother, Marilyn Leibovitz, which she said was most likely her favourite photograph.

Leibovitz describes the new show as “very democratic-all the frame sizes are equal”.

Annie Leibovitz (b. 1949) has been making powerful images documenting popular culture since the early 1970s, when she began working as a photojournalist for Rolling Stone.

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