The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008

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Submissions are now being invited for this prestigious international photographic portrait competition, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography.

The Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery has established a reputation for its diversity of photographic styles, encompassing editorial, reportage and fine art images submitted by a range of photographers, from gifted amateurs and photography students to professionals.This year, the winner of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008 will receive £12,000. In addition the judges, at their discretion, will award one or more cash prizes to the shortlisted photographers.

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You can submit up to six photographs.

Photographs

must be portraits. ‘Portrait’ may be interpreted in its widest sense, of ‘photography concerned with portraying people with emphasis on their identity as individuals’
must have been taken after 1 January 2007. Photographers must, if required, show proof of the date on which the photograph was taken
can be black and white or colour
must be unmounted and on paper no smaller than 420 x 297mm (A3 size) and no larger than 1015 x 760mm. The image may be smaller than the paper size
must be submitted in transparent protective sleeves in order to protect during judging

Official web site: www.npg.org.uk/photoprize

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Copyright: The Gallery may reproduce and or license the reproduction of any entries featured in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition without any payment to the photographer, model or any third party for any sales, marketing, educational and publicity use on, and in, all media worldwide including catalogues, posters, postcards, the Internet and within a television documentary related to the exhibition. However, such free use shall only be in connection with the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize and where practicable the photographer, and if appropriate the agency, will receive credit for such use.
Eligibility: Entry is open to photographers from around the world, aged 18 and over.
Restrictions: No online submission. Only by post.
Entry fee: a registration fee of £16 for each photograph entered
Entry deadline: all photographs, whether delivered in person or by post/courier, must be received between 21 and 25 July 2008. Proof of posting will not be accepted as proof of receipt