"What we wanted to do was give them an outlet for their work, for their expression.
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And thanks to Kindle Direct Publishing, thousands of self-published authors have also been given an outlet to share their work with the millions of Kindle readers worldwide.
"Since I got to the States, I have been working just to pay to live in a basement, " says Mr. Rios, who arrived in mid-December and shares the one-room space with five other foreigners who work at the same outlet.
As the founders of Portrait Salon, Carole Evans and James O Jenkins write in the newspaper-style catalogue that accompanies the show, the idea began as an experiment and was not intended to upset or disrupt the Taylor Wessing, but to allow those whose work did not make the walls of the NPG another outlet.