Deadline: 11th June 2019


Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2019, the leading international photographic portrait competition, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography. Organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Prize has established a reputation for creativity and excellence, with works submitted by a range of photographers, from leading professionals to talented amateurs and the most exciting emerging artists.


-Photographers must have been 18 years of age or over on 1 January 2018.
-Each photographer can submit up to six photographs.
-Previous first prize-winners, since and including 2008, are not eligible to enter the competition.
-The 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 photographs must have been taken by the entrant from life after 1 January 2018.


Entry fee:
£30 per photograph entered


Prizes:
The winner of the competition will receive £15,000. In addition the judges, at their discretion, will award cash prizes to one or more shortlisted photographers.

Details:
https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/taylor-wessing-photographic-portrait-prize-2019/exhibition/