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The photograph caused a stir last week because it was shortlisted for the National Portrait Gallery’s prestigious Taylor Wessing prize, despite the rule that “all photographs must have been taken by the entrant from life and with a living sitter”.

However realistic Erica may be, and to me she looks more like a sex doll than a real person, she was certainly not a living sitter.

It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.

"The sitters had better just take their own places," said the medium.

How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter!