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Alison Jackson

May 2023

  • ‘Have you practised your bowing?’ … Rich Pelley is the royal footman to Charles (Guy Ingle) and Camilla (Wendy Crawley)

    ‘Oi, Camilla! Where are your Rothmans?’ My day as a royal footman

    What’s it like to share a carriage with Charles and Camilla? Still waiting for my invitation to the coronation, I grabbed a ride with a pair of lookalikes – and even made it into Buckingham Palace

December 2020

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    Photographer Alison Jackson: 'I'm always almost getting arrested'

    The controversial artist discusses her celebrity lookalike photos in a time when fake news is all around us and why she finds men’s photography to be crude

September 2019

  • A fake image of Princess Diana by the UK artist Alison Jackson

    Estonian gallery told to remove fake Trump and Diana billboard images

    Adverts with ‘photographs’ by UK artist Alison Jackson deemed to have broken law

December 2016

  • An image from Alison Jackson’s book showing a Trump character with members of the Ku Klux Klan.

    Artist publishes spoof photos despite fear of being sued by Trump

    Alison Jackson says ‘litigious’ president could have chilling effect on artistic freedom as she publishes book featuring Trump lookalike

October 2013

  • Catherine Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William lookalikes with baby

    Royal life with little Prince George

    Ever wondered what life in the Royal household is like following the arrival of Baby George? Well here's an extraordinary, if not totally real, behind-the-scenes glimpse inside Kensington Palace

October 2012

  • Greenslade
    Birthday greetings to Woman's Own

    Magazine celebrates its 80th, or maybe 81st, anniversary

March 2012

  • Cosmo princes

    Media Monkey
    Their 'royal highnesses' let it all hang out for Cosmo

    Media Monkey: Cosmopolitans 40th birthday issue has a naked centrefold featuring lookalikes of princes William and Harry

January 2011

  • From Haiti's Ashes

    TV review
    TV review: From Haiti's Ashes, The Paedophile Hunters and Alison Jackson's Review of 2010

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    Alison Jackson: 'I'd love to do Piers Morgan. I'd just use Susan Boyle. They're identical'

April 2010

  • Martin Parr's political poster

    The alternative vote
    The poster election – over to you

  • "Tony Blair" in spoof Ladbrokes film

    Tony Blair backs David Cameron in spoof ad for Ladbrokes

November 2007

  • Schweppes ad - Christmas 2007

    'Blair and Brown' in Schweppes ads

    Gordon Brown and Tony Blair sharing a cracker? It must be the Schweppes Christmas ad campaign shot by lookalikes photographer Alison Jackson. By Mark Sweney

  • What I see in the mirror
    What I see in the mirror

    My face isn't dramatically altered by make-up so I don't feel I need a disguise to face the world, says Alison Jackson.

  • My best shot
    Alison Jackson's best shot

    'Some people think my lookalikes are easy jokes but they do take a bit of thought'

June 2007

  • The real Tony uncovered ...

    Lookalike photographer Alison Jackson plans to mark the Blair era in her inimitable fashion.

June 2006

  • Putting the boot in

    One foot in fantasy, one foot in reality, Alison Jackson's latest film fleshes out the tabloid myths surrounding England's manager. Andrew Mueller gets the full picture.

May 2006

  • Channel 4 lines up Eriksson satire

    3.30pm: Channel 4 is gearing up for the World Cup with a satirical documentary about the 'lives and loves' of Sven-Goran Eriksson from comedy film-maker Alison Jackson. By Leigh Holmwood.

January 2005

  • You couldn't have made it up

    Satirical artist Alison Jackson explains why the photograph is an instantly classic image.

October 2003

  • What you see is what you want to see

    It's as if she's been behind closed doors with the rich and famous, and snapped Sven and Tony and Camilla doing the intimate little things we like to think they do. Alison Jackson tells Zoe Williams about photography, truth and the art of the lookalike.

March 2003

  • Buff and double bluff

    Alison Jackson has fooled us before and will do it again, as this exclusive shot from her new TV show proves.

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