Entry Form



Entry Form

Submissions are now being invited for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography. Entry is open to photographers from around the world, aged 18 and over.

All entry forms must be received in advance online, by Tuesday 5 July 2016.

Closing date for online registration: 23:59 GMT+1 Tuesday 5 July 2016 (UK time)

Entrants must then send or deliver their photographs, in the form of original prints, to arrive at the specified delivery point between Monday 18 July – Thursday 28 July 2016.

The entry fee for this competition is £28.00 per photograph entered.

Before completing this online registration form, please ensure:
- you have read and understood the rules fully. The entry fee is non-refundable.
- you have noted all dates for handing-in and collection of photographs
- you are entering all the photographs you want to enter in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize this year: although you can enter up to 6 photographs in the competition, all photographs have to be entered as part of the same application; you will not be allowed to enter further photographs after you have completed your entry form, even if you have entered fewer than 6 photographs.

Please complete both this entry form and the registration fee form that follows fully. Incomplete entries will not be processed.
All fields marked with a * must be completed.

Please note that:

  • the stated date of the first sitting should be before the stated date of completion
  • a date of completion should be entered, even if it is only prospective
  • the telephone number fields only accept digits: do not use brackets or + signs
  • If you experience problems completing the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize online application please email photoprize@npg.org.uk detailing the problem occurring, and a contact telephone number.

I wish to enter the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016.
I have read the attached rules and agree to be bound by them.



Online Call for Entries for this year's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize has now closed.

Do not send either your works or your entry form to the National Portrait Gallery as your entry will be declined and your works will not be entered into the competition.