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Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012: Telephone Band For Entries

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You have got until ix July 2012 to submit entries for the £12,000 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012.

Some of the most impressive portraits I saw concluding yr were inwards the exhibition for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize.  There's something most this contest which stimulates a much to a greater extent than creative approach to portraiture - see Review: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011

Wen, 2011 past times Jasper Clarke (4th Prize, 2011)
© Jasper Clarke

How many people locomote into in addition to how many give-up the ghost selected?
  • The National Portrait Gallery expects to give-up the ghost some 6,000 entries
  • The exhibition volition display photographic portraits past times some threescore photographers.
  • That agency those if you lot locomote into you lot have got most a 1% conduct chances of getting selected
Are in that place whatever awards?
  • the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012  is worth £12,000
  • the John Kobal New Work Award is worth £4,000 (including a commission).  This NEW prize volition be awarded to a lensman nether the historic catamenia of xxx who is selected for the exhibition. 
What variety of operate is eligible?

‘Portrait’ may hold out interpreted in its widest sense, of ‘photography concerned with portraying people alongside emphasis on their identity equally individuals’
  • all photos must have got been taken subsequently 1 Jan 2011
  • all entries must hold out the photographer’s ain work
  • the photograph must hold out a portrait
  • photographs tin hold out inwards dark in addition to white or colour
  • must hold out unmounted in addition to on newspaper no smaller than 420x297mm (A3 size) in addition to no larger 
  • than 1015x760mm. The ikon may be smaller than the newspaper size
Who is eligible to enter?
  • all photographers over the historic catamenia of 18. You must must have got been xviii years of historic catamenia or over on 1 Jan 2011
  • there's no constraint inwards price of where you lot alive or work
  • in price of condition you lot tin hold out a professional person lensman or a gifted amateur or a Student of photography
  • previous winners of the contest are non eligible to enter
What's the confine on the lay out of entries?
  • You tin brand submit i entry form
  • In your submission you lot can enter upward to half dozen photographs (all photographs have got to hold out entered equally purpose of the same application)
What's the entry fee?
  • Every photograph you lot locomote into attracts a fee of £24
What's the deadline for entries?
  • The closing appointment for online registration: 23:59 GMT+1 Mon ix July 2012 (UK time)
  • Entries tin hold out sent inwards advance of this appointment either past times post or online
  • Entry forms volition non hold out accepted on the 24-hour interval when prints are delivered. How create I enter
How are the entries judged?
The prize winners in addition to exhibition pick is judged, on an equal in addition to anonymous basis, from master copy prints. We have got reviewed our judging guidelines inwards the concluding yr in addition to provided judges alongside procedures relating to the process, the judging in addition to conflicts of interest.
How to enter

Read the rules
Online entry
Postal entry
  • Download the postal entry shape delight CLICK HERE
  • Alternatively write in addition to asking an application shape past times sending a stamped self-addressed A5 envelope to: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE
Delivery
  • all photographs, whether delivered inwards person or past times post/courier, must hold out received between Monday 23 July – Fri 3 August 2012 (09.00 – 17.00 hrs only)
  • The delivery/collection signal address volition hold out provided i time the registration physical care for is complete
Selection decisions
  • Photographers volition hold out notified of the judges’ determination past times e-mail or past times post by Tuesday 21 August 2012.
The Exhibition

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize Exhibition volition hold out held at the National Portrait Gallery, London from viii November 2012 – 17 February 2013. A 72 page catalogue volition characteristic all the photographs selected for the exhibition.

Tips for photographers entering the exhibition

I'm repeating below the tips for potential entrants inwards my concluding post most this exhibition

First off, banking concern lucifer out the numbers.  In 2011, the threescore portraits inwards the exhibition came from 6,033 photographic portraits submitted past times 2,506 photographers. This means:
  • 1% conduct chances of getting your operate into the exhibition
  • most photographers submit to a greater extent than than i entry
  • the average lay out of photographs entered is 2.4 photographs (ie pass at to the lowest degree £50 on the entry fees). It would hold out interesting to know whether those selected had a higher average submission charge per unit of measurement in addition to whether seeing to a greater extent than photos past times the same creative somebody was to a greater extent than probable to generate a selection. (I shall ask!)
Gallery sentiment of portraits inwards the exhibition
Practical considerations are equally follows
  • Review my gallery shot to give-up the ghost a sense of the variety of size of the prints submitted
  • no distinction is made on the label for the operate betwixt cinema in addition to digital - although I have got a feeling the selectors are told. Both the outset in addition to 3rd prizes were cinema photos.
  • all photographic prints demand to hold out submitted flat
  • there is no demand to frame your prints
  • prints are matted in addition to framed past times the exhibition organisers which agency that the "look" of the exhibition is rattling uniform in addition to we're non distracted past times differences inwards framing. All operate is matted inwards white in addition to framed alongside a dark forest frame. 
  • At to the lowest degree i of the honor winners told me that the glazing used for the framed prints had darkened in addition to subdued the color inwards the prints. 

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