The National Portrait Gallery has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, one of the world’s leading awards for contemporary portrait photography.
The annual prize celebrates outstanding portrait photography from around the globe, encouraging entrants to interpret the term 'portrait' in its widest sense. Open to professional, amateur, and emerging photographers aged 18 and over, this year’s competition attracted 5,910 submissions from 2,054 photographers representing countries from Malaysia and Sweden to New Zealand and Argentina. Fifty-four works by 51 photographers will be displayed in the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition.
