Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 now open for entries
The National Portrait Gallery has announced the Call for Entries for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010, the major international photographic award. To enter, visit www.npg.org.uk/photoprize and complete the online application form. The closing date for entries is 18 July 2010.
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 is open to all photographers over the age of 18 and provides an important platform for portrait photographers including gifted amateurs, students and professionals of all ages. Around 60 photographers will be selected for the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery which in 2009 received nearly 250,000 visitors. The winner of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 will receive £12,000.
For the second year running ELLE magazine will commission a photographer selected for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition to shoot a feature story. The ELLE Commission will be judged by the fashion magazine’s editor-in-chief, Lorraine Candy, deputy art director, Tom Meredith and picture editor, Hannah Ridley. Ali Lomas won the inaugural ELLE Commission in 2009 and was commissioned by the magazine to shoot a portrait of singer Lauren Pritchard which will feature in the August issue of the magazine.
Last year the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize received 6,301 entries and was won by Paul Floyd Blake, 47, for his portrait of 13-year-old swimmer Rosie Bancroft, who hopes to compete in the 2012 Paralympic Games.
The judging panel for 2010 will include:
- Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery (Chair)
- Terence Pepper, Curator of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery
- Tim Eyles, Managing Partner, Taylor Wessing
Tim Eyles, Managing Partner of Taylor Wessing says:
"We are delighted to continue our sponsorship of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize and we look forward to further strengthening our relationship with the National Portrait Gallery. As a multi-jurisdictional law firm we are proud to support an international competition that reflects our own firm wide commitment to developing talent and supporting the arts, and which provides such pleasure and inspiration to those who take part and visit the exhibition. We hope that amateur and professional photographers internationally will be inspired to submit their entries to make this year's competition the best yet."
Lawyers Tim Eyles
Notes to editors
For more information please contact Helen Needham at Taylor Wessing:
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