“Back in 2006 I had an assignment for TIME magazine. I was given 25 seconds with the Queen to shoot a portrait. At night. No lighting set up allowed. In a room full of mirrors…. and then her family walked in….”
View the portrait David secured in those 25 seconds on our Press Photo History site
Story behind the shoot: Me and the Queen, our 25 seconds, the untold story…
H M Queen Elizabeth poses for a portrait in the White Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace in London on March7, 2006. © 2006 David Levenson for TIME.