The result is "a fascinating collective portrait of the relationship of living artists to a shared past," David Cohen wrote here last year.

"His ethnically diverse subjects lose their individual personalities in a collective portrait of the socially marginal," she says.

As it turns out, Naslund has done something unusually fine - she's written a drifting, collective portrait of a city in distress.

But the film's collective portrait of Nordestino immigrants is of an oppressed minority making the best of it.

It has been described as his "last great collective portrait".

The film, crisply edited, is a sort of road movie that paints a collective portrait of the women of Afghanistan.

Sander made a collective portrait of the German people.

The results are mounted on the walls, forming a collective portrait of the area's diverse population that expands daily.

Playwrights have been exploring the down-and-out for a long time now; these particular specimens don't add much to the collective portrait.

Indeed, he's already talking about writing "a mosaical collective portrait" of the city.