Portrait Salon is a competition that aims to show the best of the
rejected photographs from the juried
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize is an annual photographic portrait prize awarded by the National Portrait Gallery in London. It was established in 2003 as the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize. In the years 2006 and 2007 it was ...
. A judge is usually invited to make the selection and the work is shown in a number of exhibitions and in an accompanying catalogue.
It was founded in 2011 by Carole Evans and James O Jenkins.
The
portrait photography
Portrait photography, or portraiture, is a type of photography aimed toward capturing the personality of a person or group of people by using effective Photographic lighting, lighting, Painted photography backdrops, backdrops, and poses. A portr ...
competition took place in 2011,
2012,
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 (when it also accepted rejections from the
Portrait of Britain
Portrait of Britain is an annual British portrait photography competition run by the ''British Journal of Photography.'' Its subject is the diversity of British people. The 100 winning portraits are displayed on JCDecaux's digital screens across Br ...
competition),
and 2019.
Publications
*''Portrait Salon '11''. 2011. Newspaper format.
*''Portrait Salon '12''. 2012. Newspaper format.
*''Portrait Salon '13''. 2013. Newspaper format.
*''Portrait Salon '14''. 2014. Newspaper format.
*''Portrait Salon '15''. 2015. Newspaper format.
*''Portrait Salon '16''. 2016.
*''Portrait Salon '18''. 2018. Pack of cards format.
*''Portrait Salon '19''. 2019.
See also
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Salon des Refusés
The Salon des Refusés, French for "exhibition of rejects" (), is generally known as an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, but the term is most famously used to refer to the Salon des Refusés of 1863.
Today, by ...
References
External links
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Annual events in the United Kingdom
Awards established in 2011
Photography awards
Photography in the United Kingdom
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