Hospice residents dress up for portraits

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To produce the records, the Dulwich Picture Gallery worked with patients, staff and visitors to St Christopher's Hospice in Dulwich.

Residents were encouraged to use costumes to create their portrait of a lifetime, inspired by works at the gallery. More than 400 photographs will go on show there on 23, 27 and 28 November.

The project was part of Good Times, a programme for older people run by Susan Ghosh. She said: "The programme is designed to combat loneliness in older people using art.

"We were genuinely surprised by the standard of the photographs. They really show individual lives and the life of the hospice."

Ruth DuprÈ, an artist, led the work with residents and also created a film record. She said: "When I first went in with this portfolio of Old Masters to show them, and was presented by people in wheelchairs and with oxygen tubes in their noses, I thought this seemed frivolous."

But residents responded with gusto and the film turned out to be celebratory, she said.

Nigel Hartley, from the hospice, said: "People were seeing themselves as human beings at a time in their lives when everything else isn't normal."