Entry is now open for the
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017, the leading international photographic portrait competition, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography.
Organised by the
National Portrait Galleryin London, the
Prizehas established a reputation for its diversity of photographic styles submitted by a range of photographers, from gifted amateurs and photography students to established professionals.
In the
Prize'ssearch for excellence, photographers are encouraged to interpret '
portrait' in its widest sense of "
photography concerned with portraying people with an emphasis on their identity as individuals".
You can submit up to six photographs (
black and white or colour).
Photographers selected for the exhibition will need to provide the Gallery with a
TIFFfile of their photograph for use in the catalogue and exhibition marketing campaign. This file would need to be a minimum of 350dpi, 4800 pixels on the shortest side.
The entry fee for this competition is 28 GBP (
approx. 40 USD) per photograph entered.
Eligibility
Open to everyone aged 18 and over from around the world. Previous winners of the Prize, since and including
2008, are not eligible to enter the competition.
Prize
The winner of the competition will receive
15,000 GBP(
approx. 19,428 USD).
All selected photographers under the age of 35 will also be eligible for the
John Kobal New Work Award. The winning photographer will receive
5,000 GBP(
approx. 6,476 USD) and a commission from the Gallery to photograph a sitter connected with the UK film industry.
The
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017exhibition will run at the Gallery from
16 November 2017to
4 February 2018before touring to venues around the UK.