Shortlist for Taylor Wessing Photograph Portrait Prize 2023 introduced

The Nationwide Portrait Gallery has introduced the shortlisted photographers for the Taylor Wessing Photograph Portrait Prize 2023. With outcomes of the winner being introduced in November, over 50 portraits will probably be on show on the annual exhibition – making its return to the brand new renovated gallery in London.

The primary prize winner of the competitors will obtain £15,000, second prize will obtain £3000 and each third prize winners will obtain £2000.

From Nationwide Portrait Gallery, London, 21 August 2023: 

58 portraits from 51 photographers will probably be displayed because the annual exhibition returns to the newly renovated gallery for the primary time since 2020. Amongst prizes for first, second and a joint third place, a photographic fee can even be awarded to one of many 5 shortlisted photographers. These shortlisted for the exhibition can even see their images exhibited alongside portraits by 2023’s In Focus Photographer, Hassan Hajjaj.

5 photographers have been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2023, the celebrated images award organised by the Nationwide Portrait Gallery, London. The shortlisted works will probably be displayed within the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2023 exhibition because the present returns to the Nationwide Portrait Gallery, open from 9 November 2023 till 25 February 2024.

Owing to the excellent high quality of submissions this yr, a joint third place prize will probably be awarded to 2 photographers from a shortlist of 5. Chosen by a panel of judges from 5020 entries from 1785 photographers, the 5 shortlisted photographers are:

• Serena Brown for me nana fie that includes the photographer’s youthful sister visiting her grandma’s residence in Ghana for the primary time.
• Jake Inexperienced for Shaun Ryder capturing the Completely happy Mondays lead singer obscured by a vapour cloud.
• Carl Francois van der Linde for Chotu Lal Upside-down depicting skilled wrestlers of Continental Wrestling Leisure (CWE).
• Alexandre Silberman for Diena, inspecting the intersections of individuals and the pure world, captured at La Courneuve park outdoors Paris, France.
• Gilleam Trapenberg for Kisha and LaDarayon, 2023 picturing the quiet affection between a mom and son on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin.

Alongside the financial prizes for first, second and third place, a fee to the worth of £8,000 will probably be awarded to one of many shortlisted photographers. Supported by Taylor Wessing, the chosen photographer will create an art work that may kind a part of the world’s largest assortment of portraiture on the Nationwide Portrait Gallery. The commissioned photographer will probably be introduced on the Awards Ceremony on the Gallery, alongside the Prize winners, with the fee unveiled on the 2024 Taylor Wessing Photograph Portrait Prize exhibition.

Following an nameless judging course of, the winner will probably be introduced on 6 November 2023. This yr’s judging panel was chaired by Nationwide Portrait Gallery Director, Dr Nicholas Cullinan, who was joined by Senior Curator at The Photographer’s Gallery, Karen McQuaid; author and photographer, Caleb Azumah Nelson; artist, Campbell Addy; and the Nationwide Portrait Gallery’s Senior Curator of Pictures, Sabina Jaskot-Gill.

Taylor Wessing Photograph Portrait Prize 2023 shortlisted photographers

Serena Brown for me nana fie

Serena Brown is a British photographer, holding a BA in Pictures from Falmouth College. Brown’s work typically focuses on points affecting working class youth across the UK, looking for to create trustworthy and genuine portrayals of her topics. Brown’s strategy is exemplified all through her earlier initiatives together with Again a Yard, exploring the appropriation of Black and Asian working class youth tradition inside vogue, and Class of Covid-19, portraying college students who’s college years have been minimize quick by lockdown in 2020.

Brown’s work has appeared in famend publications together with capturing England Ahead participant Chloe Kelly for Grazia, photographing editor of British Vogue Edward Enninful for the New York Occasions and options for Refinery29, amongst different photographic initiatives for manufacturers similar to Nike, Google and Pepsi.

Brown’s shortlisted {photograph}, me nana fie, footage the photographer’s youthful sister at their grandmother’s home in Accra, Ghana. It’s half of a bigger challenge capturing the notable characters – associates, household and avenue sellers – who go to her grandmother. Brown was visiting her household in Ghana, returning for the primary time since she was two. She travelled along with her youthful sister Chloe, who had by no means visited the nation earlier than. The portrait captures a way of homecoming and belonging.

Jake Inexperienced for Shaun Ryder

Photograph: Jake Inexperienced

Jake Inexperienced is a British, London-based documentary photographer, creating observational photos of individuals and place. Usually working in his residence metropolis, Inexperienced’s most notable work consists of Pie and Mash London, documenting the custom of pie and mash retailers, and Drink my Sweat exploring the manufacturing and motion of espresso.

His portraiture work has included topics similar to actor Daniel Kaluya, singer Dua Lipa and creator and comic Huge Narstie amongst different notable public figures. Inexperienced has additionally collaborated with world publications and types similar to The New York Occasions, the Guardian, Converse and Google.

Shaun Ryder, taken in Manchester, was produced for a collection documenting influential figures in 1980’s music as a fee for Gold Wala and Channel 4. Depicting the long-lasting lead singer from the Completely happy Mondays, Ryder’s face is obscured fully by vapour as recommended by Ryder through the images session with Inexperienced.

Carl Francois van der Linde for Chotu Lal Upside-down

Photograph: Carl Francois van der Linde

Carl Francois van der Linde is a South African photographer, holding a Bachelors in Commerce Economics and Worldwide Commerce and Put up-Graduate diploma in advertising and communication. His work has beforehand been featured within the PhotoVogue Competition subsequent Technology Style Picture Makers 2022 awards and has collaborated on initiatives for publications and organisations together with DAZED, Elephant Journal, WePresent and the British Craft Council.

Chotu Lal Upside-down, from the collection Our Chief depicts Chotu Lal a.ok.a the Dragon, an expert wrestler from Punjab hanging the other way up by his toes from a tree, sandwiched between two a lot bigger wrestlers which was captured in Jalandhar throughout Van Der Linde’s exploration of the world of Continental Wrestling Leisure (CWE).

The portrait finds Chotu Lal within the midst of constructing his private wrestling model; CWE college students typically stage humiliation efforts as a part of their promotion, recording them and including the content material to social media. This provides to their private model and potential virality of their social media pages, hoping to catch the attention of expertise scouts.

Alexandre Silberman for Diena

Photograph: Alexandre Silberman

Alexandre Silberman is a director and photographer primarily based in Paris, France, centered on growing long run documentary initiatives. His work has beforehand been exhibited in galleries and exhibitions throughout Europe and the USA, with publications in Marie Claire Korea and Musee Journal, amongst others.

Silberman’s collection NATURE explores the intersection of human landscapes and the pure world, and the way human interventions similar to constructing a park or city greenspace creates a hybrid actuality between what’s pure and what’s constructed.

Captured in La Courneuve Park, the {photograph} footage it’s sitter, Diena, in a liminal state the place the sample of the encircling garden seems to mix with the sample of her floral shirt. The monochrome palette lends a timeless, oneiric high quality to the work, however particulars throughout the body – Diena’s nose-ring and headphones – carry the portrait into the current.

Gilleam Trapenberg for Kisha and LaDarayon, 2023

Photograph: Gilleam Trapenberg

Gilleam Trapenberg is a Dutch photographer, now primarily based in Amsterdam, who was born and raised on the Dutch-Caribbean Island of Curaçao. His work explores contradictions and stereotypes of the social panorama of the Caribbean, specializing in vistas past vacationer tropes to discover a extra nuanced and multifaceted understanding of every day life on the islands. His work has been exhibited on the Stedelijk Museum and FOAM Pictures Museum in Amsterdam.

Kisha and LaDarayon, 2023 from the collection Currents, was captured on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. Trapenberg has been photographing Kisha and her household since 2018. This specific portrait captured in 2023, options Kisha outdoors her grandmother’s residence along with her youngest son LaDarayon.

Whereas Trapenberg’s images sometimes avoids specializing in specific people, his work with Kisha’s household is a departure from this norm. His portrait captures a heartfelt second between mom and son. Trapenberg explains that Kisha, a mom of three boys, embodies the spirit of Caribbean girls he grew up with on Curaçao.

The exhibition can even host this yr’s In Focus Photographer, Hassan Hajjaj. Dwelling and dealing between London and Marrakesh, Hajjaj’s vibrant portraits embrace numerous cultural influences – incorporating references to Western pop artwork and African studio portraiture, and mixing conventional Moroccan materials and motifs with up to date streetwear and maximalist styling. His work resists stereotypes to vogue a singular illustration of Hajjaj’s personal expertise of residing between British and North African cultures.

Nicholas Cullinan, Director, Nationwide Portrait Gallery says, “Congratulations to the shortlisted photographers, who’ve demonstrated an excellent high quality of labor amongst a particularly proficient pool of entries. The Photograph Portrait Prize is at all times a chance to showcase new and thrilling images expertise, and we’re delighted to be welcoming the exhibition again to the newly renovated gallery. With a brand new Fee Prize, I additionally look ahead to working with one in all these photographers to create a chunk for the Nationwide Portrait Gallery’s assortment after the winner is revealed in November.”

Shane Gleghorn Managing Companion, Taylor Wessing says, “This yr’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize options an distinctive shortlist of proficient artists. We take delight in supporting the Prize, which has gained worldwide status and attracted a rising variety of artists and we look ahead to seeing the Prize return to the Nationwide Portrait Gallery.”

Taylor Wessing Photograph Portrait Prize 2023 exhibition

9 November 2023 – 25 February 2024

Supported by Taylor Wessing
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