Taylor Wessing Picture Portrait prize 2023 open for entries

2023 marks the return of the newly named Taylor Wessing Picture Portrait Prize to the Nationwide Portrait Gallery, because it prepares to reopen in June.

The Nationwide Portrait Gallery has introduced that entries are open to its annual portrait images prize, renamed the Taylor Wessing Picture Portrait Prize. The worldwide competitors, which celebrates and promotes the easiest in modern portrait images, is inviting submissions till 10pm on 22 Could 2023.

From the Nationwide Portrait Gallery: 

To rejoice the Prize’s return the Nationwide Portrait Gallery, following the redevelopment of its constructing, numerous new initiatives have been launched to make the Prize extra accessible than ever earlier than. Photographers in receipt of Common Credit score or Pension Credit score can enter this yr’s Prize without cost, and a brand new low cost is in place for photographers who obtain Incapacity Advantages, who’re college students or are between the ages of 18 and 25.

The Taylor Wessing Picture Portrait Prize is likely one of the best images awards on the earth and showcases the work of a few of the most enjoyable and cutting-edge modern photographers. Works this yr will likely be exhibited on the renovated Nationwide Portrait Gallery, following its reopening on 22 June 2023. This follows two years of exhibiting externally, throughout which period the Gallery was closed for redevelopment. The exhibition will open in London on 9 November 2023 and can run till 25 February 2024.

The competitors is open to everybody aged 18 and over from around the globe, whether or not a number one skilled, a gifted newbie or an thrilling rising artist. Photographers are inspired to interpret ‘portrait’ in its widest sense, with ‘images targeted on portraying folks with an emphasis on their id as people.’

The winner of the competitors will obtain £15,000, with second prize receiving £3,000 and third prize £2,000. This yr’s judging panel will likely be chaired by the Nationwide Portrait Gallery’s Director, Dr Nicholas Cullinan, who will likely be joined by Senior Curator at The Photographer’s Gallery, Karen McQuaid; novelist and photographer, Caleb Azumah Nelson; photographer and filmmaer, Campbell Addy; and the Nationwide Portrait Gallery’s Curator of Images, Sabina Jaskot-Gill.

Laundry Day #2 from the sequence Laundry Day by Clémentine Schneidermann © Clémentine Schneidermann

Director of Nationwide Portrait Gallery, Dr Nicholas Cullinan says, “Forward of the Gallery’s reopening on 22 June, I’m thrilled to announce that entries to this yr’s Taylor Wessing Picture Portrait Prize are formally open. Yearly, submissions replicate modern occasions and matters by means of a rare number of themes and types, and I sit up for seeing the entries for 2023.”

Managing Associate, Taylor Wessing, Shane Gleghorn says, “The Taylor Wessing Picture Portrait Prize is in its sixteenth yr, which makes it one of many longest operating arts partnerships. Following on from the excellent renovation of the gallery house, we’re delighted to see the return of the Prize to the Nationwide Portrait Gallery this yr. The Prize attracts a few of the best possible photos in modern portrait images. We’re wanting ahead to seeing these improbable photos on the partitions of the renovated gallery.”

How one can enter Taylor Wessing Picture Portrait prize 2023

Entrants to the competitors are inspired to submit works as a sequence, both a gaggle of particular person portraits based mostly on a specific theme, or two or extra pictures that type a single portrait when proven collectively, along with stand-alone portraits. One sequence of pictures submitted to the competitors could also be chosen by the judges to be exhibited in its entirety.

To enter the 2023 competitors, photographers are required to add their picture(s) by way of the Nationwide Portrait Gallery’s competitors platform. All photos will likely be considered anonymously by a panel of judges who will collectively choose the prize winners and works for the exhibition.

The digital platform may be accessed by way of www.competitions.npg.org.uk.

The entry price for the competitors is £21 per picture. Full details about methods to enter, together with entry kinds and guidelines, may be discovered on-line.

Peter & Sue, April 2022 from the sequence Fashionable Love by Curtis Hughes © Curtis Hughes. Exhibiting photographer in Taylor Wessing portrait prize exhibition 2022

Taylor Wessing Picture Portrait Prize 2023 exhibition

9 November 2023 – 25 February 2024
Supported by Taylor Wessing
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See the 2022 Taylor Wessing Picture Prize winners and shortlist.

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