Pregnancy nightmare portrait wins £12,000 prize

A portrait inspired by a woman's nightmare about being pregnant with quintuplets has won this year's National Portrait Gallery Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize worth £12,000.

Londoner Lottie Davies's portrait, Quints, is part of a series on early childhood memories and nightmares and is based on her friend Caroline's bad dream. Davies, 37, from Highbury, used a model and the model's niece to play her friend and the quintuplets.

The photograph drew on classical imagery of the Madonna and child and NPG director Sandy Nairne said: "Davies has produced a brilliantly imaginative portrait image."