Each year our Television Awards brochures feature a specially commissioned photo essay. For the House of Fraser British Academy Television Awards in 2016 we reflected on the duality between the real and the illusory in television, celebrating both it’s veritas and it’s fiction.

Photography credit: Jonathan Birch.

Orsolya Szabo assisted by Anna Ryall and in conjunction with House of Fraser and 88 Rue du Rhone. Hair by Edward James using Aveda hair care. Make up provided by M.A.C Cosmetics., skin finishing by St. Tropez, jewellery by CARAT London.