The Prize

Submissions are now being invited for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography. Entry is open to photographers from around the world, aged 18 and over.

This prestigious international competition, 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.

In the Prize's search for excellence, photographers are encouraged to interpret 'portrait' in its widest sense of 'photography concerned with portraying people with an emphasis on their identity as individuals.'

The selected exhibition will be shown at the National Portrait Gallery, London from 5 November 2009 - 14 February 2010.

The prizewinners and exhibition will be selected by a distinguished judging panel. The winner of the competition will receive £12,000. In addition the judges, at their discretion, will award one or more cash prizes to the shortlisted photographers.

• Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
• Photographic Portrait Prize 2007
• Photographic Portrait Prize 2006
• Photographic Portrait Prize 2005