Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2013 - Shortlist Announced

The photographs too photographers on the Shortlist for the £12,000 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2013 possess got been announced.

The next 4 photographers possess got been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2013:
The Exhibition opens to the populace on Th xiv Nov too volition survive on display inwards the Porter Gallery at the National Portrait Gallery, London until nine Feb 2013, admission £3.

This twelvemonth 5,410 photographs past times 2,435 photographers were entered for the Taylor Wessing Prize - past times photographers from all over the world.  This is an increase of 85 entries on final year.

It also agency that solely simply over 1% of the industrial plant submitted volition survive on display at the National Portrait Gallery.

I concealment this prize too exhibition because the picture-making abilities of closed to of the photographers is sometimes improve than that of the portrait painters - too it's expert to hold back at what the contest is upward to!

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2013  Shortlist


Image: Kofi Annan past times Anoush Abrar, 2013 
© Anoush Abrar

Anoush Abrar for Kofi Annan


Age: b. 02.06.1976
Nationality: Born inwards Tehran, Iran; lived in n Switzerland since he was v years old
Current home:
Current occupation: Magazine Photographer
Art / Photography Education: He studied at the University of Arts inwards Lausanne
Exhibitions:
Previous prizes:
Website: Blog http://anoushabrar.tumblr.com/
Subject:  Kofi Annan, the Ghanaian diplomat who served every bit the 7th Secretary-General of the UN until 2006. Commissioned past times ZEIT Magazine too published inwards March 2013.

Abrar had photographed Mr Annan previously too he says he knew that fourth dimension was of the essence.

In my head it was clear what I wanted to create too this portrait took literally iii minutes!

Dorothee Deiss for The twins


The twins by Dorothee Deiss, 2013
© Dorothee Deiss 
Age: b. 08.05.1961 inwards Münsingen/ Württ
Nationality:  German
Current home:
Art / Photography Education
  • 1982 - 1989 University of Medicine, Freiburg, Germany
  • 1989 - 1999 MD inwards Karlsruhe/ Germany
  • 2003 - 2004 Fotografie am Schiffbauerdamm, schoolhouse for photography, Berlin
  • 2005 - 2008 Ostkreuzschule, schoolhouse for photography too design, Berlin
  • 2010 Founding fellow member of Exp12, qallery for photography, Berlin
  • Since 2010 MFA Photography Program, Hartford Art School, Hartford, USA

Current Occupation: works every bit a lensman too Pediatric Endocrinologist inwards Berlin. She is a founding fellow member of Exp12, gallery for photography, Berlin.
Exhibitions:
Previous prizes:
Websitehttp://www.dorotheedeiss.com/
Subject: Twin sisters, visited at their abode (for her projection VisibleInvisible)
I took a lot of to a greater extent than conventional portraits of them, but when I found the bathrobe inwards a corner, perfectly plumbing equipment to the bedspread, that was when I knew I had the picture’.

Spencer Murphy for Katie Walsh



Katie Walsh past times Spencer Murphy, 2013
© Spencer Murphy
Age: 22.09.1978 too grew upward inwards Kent
Nationality: British
Current home: lives too industrial plant inwards London
Art / Photography Education:
  • Kent Institute of Art too Design
  • BA inwards Photography at Falmouth College of Arts
Exhibitions: Exhibited every bit purpose of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 7 times
Previous prizes: Various awards including
  • Shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards inwards both 2010 too 2011 
  • Portrait of thespian Mark Rylance won Taylor Wessing Third Prize inwards 2012

Websitehttp://www.spencermurphy.co.uk
and http://spencermurphy.tumblr.com
Subject: Katie Walsh - taken at Kempton Park Racecourse whilst shooting a serial of jump jockeys' portraits for Channel Four's The Original Extreme Sport campaign. He gear upward at the side of the racecourse too pulled inwards the jockeys every bit they finished their races.
‘I was slap-up to include Katie. I wanted to demo both her femininity too the toughness of spirit she requires to compete against the best riders inwards i of the nearly demanding disciplines inwards Equus caballus racing. I chose to shoot the serial on large format film, to give the images a depth too timelessness that I hollo back would possess got been difficult to attain on a digital camera’.

Giles Price for Kumbh Mela Pilgrim Mamta Dubey too infant


Kumbh& Mela Pilgrim
- Mamta Dubey too infant 

by Giles Price, 2013
© Giles Price
Age: b. 09.07.1973
Nationality: British
Current home: Hertfordshire
Art / Photography Education: BA inwards Photographic Studies at University of Derby inwards 1994-7 (after leaving the regular army due to injuries sustained inwards Iarq
Exhibitions: exhibited widely too has been commissioned past times several magazines too newspapers.
Previous prizes:
Website: http://www.gilesprice.com/
Subject:  His portrait is from a serial shot at the 2013 Kumbh Mela Festival inwards Allahabad India. Taken exterior the head infirmary inwards a popular upward studio, the portrait shows Mamta who was on a pilgrimage to the Kumbh.

His involvement inwards photography began patch on military machine service. He joined the Royal Marine Commandos at xvi too served inwards northern Republic of Iraq too Kurdistan at the terminate of the kickoff Gulf War inwards 1991.

About the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2013 


This is a major international photography abide by with a kickoff prize of £12,000 sponsored for the 6th fourth dimension past times international constabulary theatre Taylor.

Prizes

The First Prize winner receives £12,000. The Second Prize winner receives £3,000, the Third Prize £2,000 too the Fourth Prize is £1,000. The winner of the John Kobal New Work Award volition win a cash prize of £4000 to include task a committee to photograph a sitter connected with the Great Britain cinema manufacture for the National Portrait Gallery Collection.

Prizewinners volition survive announced at the awards ceremony on Tuesday 12 November 2013 at 7pm.

Judges

The contest was judged from master copy prints by: 
  • Sandy Nairne Director, National Portrait Gallery, London (Chair);
  • Kate Bush Head of Barbican Art Galleries; 
  • Suki Dhanda Photographer; 
  • Tim Eyles Managing Partner, TaylorWessing; 
  • Terence Pepper Head of Photographs Collection, National Portrait Gallery; 
  • Rebecca ValentinePhotographic Agent.
The John Kobal New Work Award was judged past times Simon Crocker, Chairman of the John Kobal
Foundation.

Exhibition

The Exhibition for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2013 The exhibition volition run from xiv Nov 2013 – nine Feb 2014 at the National Portrait Gallery, London. It will
showcase the function of closed to of the nearly talented emerging immature photographers, amongst that of established professionals, photography students too gifted amateurs. Selected anonymously from an opened upward competition, the multifariousness of styles reflects the international mix of entrants every bit good every bit the arrive at of approaches to the portrait genre, encompassing editorial, advertising too fine fine art images.

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