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Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 - Shortlist Announced

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The 4 photographers who stimulate got had photographic portraits shortlisted for the £12,000 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 are:
See my previous post Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012: Call for Entries for to a greater extent than details virtually the telephone vociferation upward for entries too details of what was admissable.  More details virtually the Prize, the chances of getting selected too the exhibition details are at the destination of this post.

Shortlisted Photographic Portraits

All their websites stimulate got much larger versions of the shortlisted portraits.

Alma Haser for The Ventriloquist

The Ventriloquist yesteryear Alma Haser
© Alma Haser
Age: b. 1989
Nationality: High German (moved to United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland inwards 1995)
Current home: UK
Art education: BA inwards Photography from Nottingham Trent University
Exhibitions: her run has featured inwards 10 exhibitions internationally
Previous prizes: Chosen yesteryear the British Journal of Photography every bit i of the 4 best graduates of 2010; third identify inwards the People’s Choice at Foto8 Summer Show 2012
Website: http://www.haser.org/ (which has a much larger picture of the shortlisted portrait)
Subject:  Her shortlisted portrait, taken inwards her shared theater inwards South London, is of friends Luke too James who stimulate got known each other since they were 12. Struck yesteryear their hairstyles, Haser initially planned to stimulate got divide portraits simply it was hard to larn them to concentrate then she decided to photograph them together. She says
‘I asked them to sit down on a tiny, wobbly java table, forcing them to almost cling onto each other. Ultimately I wanted to plow their verbal banter into a visual image. The championship is designed to assistance viewers brand upward their ain stories virtually what is going on.’ 

Spencer Murphy for Mark Rylance
Mark Rylance yesteryear Spencer Murphy
© Spencer Murphy

Age: b. 1978 (Kent)
Nationality: British
Current home:
Art education: BA inwards Photography at the Falmouth College of Arts.  Also studied at the Kent Institute of Art too Design.
Exhibitions: work has been exhibited internationally - including vi times inwards the TaylorWessing Photographic Portrait Prize 
Previous prizes: shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards inwards both 2010 too 2011 too a recipient of many awards
Website: http://www.spencermurphy.co.uk
Blog: http://spencermurphy.tumblr.com
Subject:  actor Mark Rylance.  This was a committee for the comprehend of the Telegraph Magazine to grade the actor’s provide to the Globe to play Richard III. Murphy says
‘I’ve ever enjoyed working with actors every bit there’s no awkwardness or discomfort inwards front end of the photographic television set camera too they are able to sympathise administration too react to it really easily. Mark was no exception.’

Jennifer Pattison for Lynne, Brighton
Lynn, Brighton yesteryear Jennifer Pattison
© Jennifer Pattison
Age: b. 1978 (Hertfordshire)
Nationality: British
Current home: UK
Art education: BA inwards Photography at the London College of Printing
Website: http://www.jennifer-pattison.com
Career: Photographic agent too producer. Pattison has worked for many photographers including David Sims too interned inwards the photographs division at the Victoria & Albert Museum
Subject: her friend Lynne.  The portrait was shot inwards the empty sleeping room of a derelict theater inwards Brighton. It is purpose of a currently untitled serial of naked portraits too landscapes. Pattison says
‘There is an interesting shift inwards the consciousness of the sitter during the ho-hum procedure of making these portraits; a 2nd inwards the tranquillity where they larn unaware that they are naked. I capture them every bit they drift to closed to other place. With no administration Lynne adopted this straightforward pose, bare too undaunted, looking direct downwards the lens too beyond.’ 

Jordi Ruiz Cirera for Maria Teichroeb

Maria Teichroeb yesteryear Jordi Ruiz Cirera
© Jordi Ruiz Cirera
Age: b. 1984
Nationality: Spanish
Current home: UK
Art education: MA inwards Photojournalism too Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication; plus studied Design at Elisava College, Barcelona
Exhibitions: work has been included inwards numerous exhibitions
Previous prizes: AOP Student Awards; the Deutsche Bank Award inwards Photography.
Website: http://www.jordiruizcirera.com
Subject: Maria, a Mennonite from the Swift Current Colony inwards Bolivia.  His shortlisted portrait is purpose of his long term projection portraying the daily life of this community. He says of the process
‘almost all of the houses stimulate got tables inwards front end of their windows giving fantastic calorie-free to the scene. Sitting inwards front end of the photographic television set camera was non tardily for Maria, photography is forbidden for Mennonites too having her direct portrait taken was quite hard then I could solely stimulate got 2 frames of her. Even though nosotros were enjoying the situation, Maria posed with this variety of awkward expression’. 

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

This major international prize for portrait photography is sponsored yesteryear the law draw of piece of job solid Taylor Wessing - thus the name!  The aim of the prize is to....
showcase the run of closed to of the most talented emerging immature photographers, with that of established professionals, photography students too gifted amateurs.
Prizes: The First Prize winner receives £12,000; Second Prize £3,000; Third Prize £2,000 too Fourth Prize, £1,000.  Prizewinners volition last announced on fifth November.

The John Kobal New Work Award is novel for 2012.  This cash prize of £4,000 volition last awarded to a lensman nether the historic catamenia of thirty selected for the exhibition. The winning lensman volition undertake a committee from the NPG to photograph a sitter connected with the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland celluloid industry.

Selected photographers: Those selected for the exhibition associated with this opened upward contest are chosen from anonymous submissions.  The entry is typically international too crosses all genres of portrait photography.

The judges stimulate got selected threescore portraits for the The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012  exhibition from 5,340 submissions entered yesteryear 2,352 photographers.  I've done the sums too that means:
  • a lensman typically submitted an average of 2.27 photographic portraits
  • those plant selected for the exhibition correspond 1.12% of the full submissions.
The contest was judged from master copy prints by:
  • Emma Hardy, Photographer, Lauren Heinz, Director, Foto8, 
  • Glyn Morgan, Partner, Taylor Wessing LLP, 
  • Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery (Chair);
  • Sean O’Hagan, Writer on Photography for the Observer too the Guardian 
  • Terence Pepper, Curator of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery
The John Kobal New Work Award was judged yesteryear Simon Crocker, Chairman of the John Kobal Foundation, too author too journalist Liz Jobey, a Trustee of the John Kobal Foundation.

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 Exhibition will run from viii Nov 2012 – 17 Feb 2013 inwards the Porter Gallery at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Admission £2

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