The prestigious Taylor Wessing Portrait Photo Prize competition showcases talented amateur and young photographers as well as established professionals. The diverse range of images often reveal inspiring and fascinating stories.
From the 5,020 submissions entered by 1,785 photographers from 59 countries, five photographers were shortlisted. Alexandre Silberman came out on top, with Gilleam Trapenberg coming second, and Jake Green and Carl Francois van der Linde taking a joint third prize.
In addition to the first, second and third prizes, the competition ran the Taylor Wessing Photographic Commission for the first time, which provides the winning photographer the support to create a portrait, which will become part of the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection. The £8,000 commission has been won by Serena Brown for her portrait ‘me nana fie’, which depicts her younger sister visiting her family home in Accra, Ghana.
A total of 58 photographs from 51 photographers are on display at the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023 exhibition in London which, for the first time in three years, runs at the National Portrait Gallery until 25 February 2024. It features work by Jenny Lewis, Heather Agyepong, a portrait of actor Ncuti Gatwa by Jonangelo Molinari and the 2023 In Focus photographer, Hassan Hajjaj.
The exhibited photographs were