Call for entries: Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024

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The international competition, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography, is inviting submissions from 9am on 26 March 2024 until 10pm on 7 May 2024.

The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize is one of the most competitive photography awards in the world and showcases the work of some of the most exciting and cutting-edge contemporary photographers. The competition is open to everyone aged 18 and over from around the world, whether a leading professional, a talented amateur or an exciting emerging artist. Photographers are encouraged to interpret ‘portrait’ in its widest sense, with ‘photography focused on portraying people with an emphasis on their identity as individuals’. The winner of the competition will receive £15,000, with second prize receiving £3000 and third prize £2000. 
A commission prize worth £8000 will also be awarded, giving a chosen photographer the opportunity to create a portrait for the Gallery’s collection. Serena Brown, winner of the inaugural commission prize in 2023, will unveil her new portrait for the collection at the award ceremony in November. The exhibition will open in London on 14 November 2024 and run until 16 February 2025.
This year’s judging panel will include multimedia artist Pogus Caesar; curator Alona Pardo; writer and curator Lou Stoppard and the National Portrait Gallery’s Curator of Photography Clare Freestone.