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Thanks Alastair I had missed that. Clearly my comments above are about the image in isolation, I am sure that viewed as a set there would be a different response.
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Maybe the picture evoked those responses in the judges? We'll probably never know.
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It's obviously provoked something for it to have won.
What are your thoughts?
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I can't help but think this winning image must be excellent news for Daryl, think how many times he could enter and win!
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I would refer anyone coming to this thread for the first time to also review the Talk Art discussion that spun off when this thread was still young..
https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/talk-art-section.635366/
https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/talk-art-section.635366/
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As I said before, it's not the one I thought would win. My money was on the two girls. But looking again at the four shortlisted I reckon it's probably the pick of the bunch because it's less mannered than the others. Just a straightforward picture. I do have a feeling that the words have had as much influence on the judging as the pictures.
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Here are some more from the competition.
https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-photographic-portrait-prize-2016-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-photographic-portrait-prize-2016-in-pictures
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I used to really struggle with the Taylor Wessing, but once you go and see the prints in the flesh and read the accompanying text, it all starts to make sense. I enjoy it more if I think of it as an exhibition of mini editorial pieces rather than a purely photographic exhibition.
However when you see this on the NPG website...
"The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016 is the leading international competition, open to all, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography from around the world."
I go back to struggling!
However when you see this on the NPG website...
"The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016 is the leading international competition, open to all, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography from around the world."
I go back to struggling!
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And some from the 'rejects' exhibition. https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...21/highlights-portrait-salon-2016-in-pictures
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According to Google this year the rules included:
2 | Photographs
2.1 Must be the photographer’s own work
2.2 Must be portraits. ‘Portrait’ may be interpreted in its widest sense, of ‘photography concerned with portraying people with an emphasis on their identity as individuals’.
2.3 Must have been taken by the entrant from life and with a living sitter after 1 January 2015. Photographers must, if required, show proof of the date on which the photograph was taken.
2.4 Can be black and white or colour.
2.5 Must be unmounted and on paper, or other suitable surface, no larger than 1015 x 760mm and 20 kilos in weight (there are no limitations on how small a work can be). The image may be smaller than the paper size
2.6 All works must be submitted in either transparent protective sleeves (preferred) or similar transparent cover in order to protect during judging.
2.7 Photographers may submit individual portraits or portraits in series. A ‘series’ may mean either a group of separate portraits around a particular theme, or a number of pictures that when shown together combine to make up a single portrait work. The judges may choose to display a series in its entirety within the exhibition.
2 | Photographs
2.1 Must be the photographer’s own work
2.2 Must be portraits. ‘Portrait’ may be interpreted in its widest sense, of ‘photography concerned with portraying people with an emphasis on their identity as individuals’.
2.3 Must have been taken by the entrant from life and with a living sitter after 1 January 2015. Photographers must, if required, show proof of the date on which the photograph was taken.
2.4 Can be black and white or colour.
2.5 Must be unmounted and on paper, or other suitable surface, no larger than 1015 x 760mm and 20 kilos in weight (there are no limitations on how small a work can be). The image may be smaller than the paper size
2.6 All works must be submitted in either transparent protective sleeves (preferred) or similar transparent cover in order to protect during judging.
2.7 Photographers may submit individual portraits or portraits in series. A ‘series’ may mean either a group of separate portraits around a particular theme, or a number of pictures that when shown together combine to make up a single portrait work. The judges may choose to display a series in its entirety within the exhibition.
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I thought this blog entry from 2014 was interesting (I can recall reading it at the time)https://kirstymackay.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/its-that-taylor-wessing-time-of-year/
https://kirstymackay.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/its-that-taylor-wessing-time-of-year/
https://kirstymackay.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/its-that-taylor-wessing-time-of-year/
"With only three days left to enter the Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize, I am still deciding what to enter. I have one definite portrait in mind and one other that I’m not so sure about. The Taylor Wessing has the most complex entry system of all the competitions I’ve entered. All the others accept digital files. Taylor Wessing requires A3 prints, minimum. Here’s what this involves for me.
– Entry fee of £26 per image. [max of 6 images set by Taylor Wessing, this artist blogger was planning on entering 2 images]
– A trip to London with my negs, to my printer to get the prints made and approved that same day. No one in Bristol prints C-types from negs these days and there is no point entering with an inferior quality print.
– the size A3 (not a photographic paper size) needs to be printed on 24×20 paper costing £105 +VAT, really hoping the lab will do me a deal.
- Courier fee £30 to pick up the prints, packaged to exact requirements, the day before I leave to go on holiday. Delivered during the exact dates and office opening hours [set by Taylor Wessing]. I could use special delivery, but they don’t guarantee delivering within these times and not on Saturdays.
So even if I manage to get a cheep ticket to London, we are talking hundreds of pounds to enter two images. This expense makes taking a risk less likely. The chances are your going to play it safe and it makes me wonder if this effects the overall entries."
From another blog
How many people enter and how many get selected? [Taylor Wessing competition]
How to calculate the cost of entering a juried art exhibition
http://makingamark.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/juried-art-competition-costs.html
https://kirstymackay.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/its-that-taylor-wessing-time-of-year/
https://kirstymackay.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/its-that-taylor-wessing-time-of-year/
"With only three days left to enter the Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize, I am still deciding what to enter. I have one definite portrait in mind and one other that I’m not so sure about. The Taylor Wessing has the most complex entry system of all the competitions I’ve entered. All the others accept digital files. Taylor Wessing requires A3 prints, minimum. Here’s what this involves for me.
– Entry fee of £26 per image. [max of 6 images set by Taylor Wessing, this artist blogger was planning on entering 2 images]
– A trip to London with my negs, to my printer to get the prints made and approved that same day. No one in Bristol prints C-types from negs these days and there is no point entering with an inferior quality print.
– the size A3 (not a photographic paper size) needs to be printed on 24×20 paper costing £105 +VAT, really hoping the lab will do me a deal.
- Courier fee £30 to pick up the prints, packaged to exact requirements, the day before I leave to go on holiday. Delivered during the exact dates and office opening hours [set by Taylor Wessing]. I could use special delivery, but they don’t guarantee delivering within these times and not on Saturdays.
So even if I manage to get a cheep ticket to London, we are talking hundreds of pounds to enter two images. This expense makes taking a risk less likely. The chances are your going to play it safe and it makes me wonder if this effects the overall entries."
From another blog
How many people enter and how many get selected? [Taylor Wessing competition]
- The National Portrait Gallery expects to get around 6,000 entries
- The exhibition will display photographic portraits by around 60 photographers.
- That means those if you enter you have about a 1% chance of getting selected
How to calculate the cost of entering a juried art exhibition
http://makingamark.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/juried-art-competition-costs.html