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ELLE magazine will commission the photographer selected for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition to shoot a feature story for the magazine. Fair use of low-resolution image of the cover of Elle magazine's French edition, 10-21-2001.

Call for entries: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
ELLE magazine will commission the photographer selected for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition to shoot a feature story for the magazine. Fair use of low-resolution image of the cover of Elle magazine's French edition, 10-21-2001.
ELLE magazine will commission the photographer selected for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition to shoot a feature story for the magazine. Fair use of low-resolution image of the cover of Elle magazine’s French edition, 10-21-2001.

LONDON – The National Portrait Gallery has announced the call for entries for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011, a major international photographic award. Entry forms are now available and the closing date for entries is July 7, 2011.

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 is open to all photographers over the age of 18 and provides an important platform for portrait photographers including gifted amateurs, students and professionals of all ages. Those who wish to enter may visit www.npg.org.uk/photoprize and complete the online application form.

Around 60 photographers will be selected for the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, and the winner of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 will receive £12,000. The exhibition will run at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from Nov. 10, 2011 until Feb. 12, 2012.

For the third year running ELLE magazine will commission a photographer selected for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition to shoot a feature story for the magazine. Clare Shilland won the second ELLE Commission in 2010 for her portrait Merel.

Last year the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize attracted nearly 6,000 entries and was won by David Chancellor, for his portrait Huntress with Buck. Prizes were also awarded to Panayiotis Lamprou, Jeffrey Stockbridge and Abbie Trayler-Smith.

Tim Eyles, Managing Partner of Taylor Wessing says: “We are delighted to continue our sponsorship of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize and we look forward to further strengthening our relationship with the National Portrait Gallery. As a multi-jurisdictional law firm we are proud to support an international competition that reflects our own firm-wide commitment to developing talent and supporting the arts, and which provides such pleasure and inspiration to those who take part and visit the exhibition. We hope that amateur and professional photographers internationally will be inspired to submit their entries to make this year’s competition the best yet.”

The first prize winner receives £12,000 (approx. $19,640). In addition the judges, at their discretion, will award one or more cash prizes to the shortlisted photographers.

ELLE magazine will choose one photographer selected for the exhibition to shoot a feature story. They will pay standard commissioning rates and expenses to the photographer chosen. ELLE is the world’s biggest-selling fashion magazine with 39 editions worldwide. The British edition of ELLE sells 195,455 copies a month (ABC January-December 2009).

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