Entry is now open for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016!
The leading international photographic portrait competition celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography.
Organised by the National Portrait Gallery in London, thePrize has 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’s search 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.’
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016exhibition will run at the Gallery from 17 November 2016 to 26 February 2017 before touring to venues around the UK.
Entry
You can submit up to six photographs. Photographs must be portraits. ‘Portrait’ may be interpreted in its widest sense of ‘photography concerned with portraying people with an emphasis on their identity as individuals’. All submissions must be made online via the website.
Who may enter
The competition is open to everyone aged 18 and over from around the world.
Entry fee
The entry fee for this competition is £28.00 per photograph entered.
Prizes
The winner will receive £15,000. In addition the judges, at their discretion, will award cash prizes to one or more shortlisted photographers. In 2015 there were four prize-winners.
All selected photographers under the age of 35 will also be eligible for the John Kobal New Work Award. The winning photographer will receive £4,000 and a commission from the Gallery to photograph a sitter connected with the UK film industry.
This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/twppp-2016/exhibition.php