Maggie's Centre Portraits

Earlier this month, a campaign was launched at Downing Street to raise £15m for five new Maggie's Centres across England and Wales. These centres will join the five others already up and running in Scotland, where cancer patients and carers and their families drop in for support.

Sam Taylor-Wood, a patron of Maggie's Centres (along with the prime minister's wife, Sarah Brown), was diagnosed with cancer ten years ago, just as her career as an artist was taking off. This year, Sam was invited to photograph some of the patients at the Maggie's Centre in Fife, Scotland, designed by award winning architect, Zaha Hadid.

The portraits of the cancer patients taken by Taylor-Wood in the light flooded, space-ship like building are being exhibited at Downing Street until early January 2008. The portraits will then go on tour around the UK, to help raise money and awareness for the amazing and needed support that is provided by Maggie's Centres.