Prizewinners - Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Contest 2015
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| A sentiment of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibition 2015 showing iii prizewinners |
First Prize (£12,000): David Stewart
Back inward 2008 David Stewart created a portrait photograph of 5 girls well-nigh to showtime their GCSEs titled Five Girls, Four Cartons, Three Cups (subtitle 'United past times hair').
Last black he won the £12,000 First Prize inward the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 alongside a follow-up grouping portrait of the same 5 girls but later on graduating from academy alongside the to a greater extent than prosaic championship of Five Girls 2014. The pilus is however pretty prominent!
It's the 16th fourth dimension i of his photos has been selected for this exhibition.
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| David Stewart, Winner of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 alongside Five Girls 2014 alongside smartphones, java cups together with sushi together with salad cartons - together with equal emphasis on the hair Prizewinning portrait © David Stewart | This photograph © Katherine Tyrrell |
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| Five Girls 2014 by David Stewart© David Stewart |
In 2014, he's repeated the Five Girls (sat inward the same club alongside the same pose) addition iv cartons together with iii cups - but the type of nutrient together with drinkable they similar has changed fifty-fifty if the obsession alongside good-looking pilus has not!
‘I guide keep ever had a fascination alongside the agency people interact – or, inward this case, neglect to interact, which inspired the photograph of this grouping of girls. While the girls are physically really unopen together with their agency together with wearable highlight their membership of the same peer group, at that topographic point is an chemical component of distance betwixt them.’His immature adult woman is the i inward blueish inward both photographs.
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| Five Girls, Four Cartons, Three Cups © David Stewart pre GCSEs inward a burger bar - alongside pocket-sized pinkish phones |
Plus we've all done "repeated photographs" - I know I have!
Name: David Stewart
Age: b.1958
Nationality: David is from Lancashire
Current home: London
Current occupation: He works on both working inward advertising together with fine fine art photography inward commercial commissions together with personal projects.
Art / Photography Education: Blackpool together with The Fylde College
Exhibitions:
Previous prizes: his 2007 Taylor Wessing entry, "Alice & Fish," featuring his 14-year-old daughter, was shortlisted for the overall prize.
Website:
- http://www.davidstewwwart.com (which is a cute agency of resolving the occupation of a visual creative mortal alongside a mutual name!)
- Wikipedia entry
The Exhibition
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 exhibition is on display at the National Portrait Gallery from tomorrow (12 Nov 2015) to 21 Feb 2016.
This annual portrait competition began inward 1993 together with over fourth dimension has grown to croak i of the most prestigious photography awards inward the world. It's regarded equally a really of import platform for portrait photographers equally it showcases novel operate past times about of the most exciting together with cutting-edge contemporary photographers - both immature together with old, professionals together with amateurs.
Below are to a greater extent than details well-nigh the other prizewinners
Tomorrow I comment on the exhibition to a greater extent than oftentimes than non - which is really dissimilar this year.
Other Prizewinners
Second Prize ( £3,000) - Anoush Abrar for Hector
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| Second Prize: Hector past times Anoush Abrar Prizewinning portrait © Anoush Abrar | This photograph © Katherine Tyrrell |
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