Contemporary portrait photography

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Photographer Hendrik Kerstens turns his daughter (and trash bags, toilet paper, bubble wrap, lampshades and towels), into photos that emulate 17th century Dutch and Flemish portraits.

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Diverse, varied and inspirational, these award-winning single images showcase the power of portraiture to help us see the world with fresh eyes. Dive into each frame and learn more about how these stunning single shots came into being.

Amsterdam-based photographer Aisha Zeijpveld creates surreal portraits featuring soft coloured backdrops with interrupted and edited subjects. The artist’s use of watercolour-like layers, crumpled canvas textures, tilted mirrors, unusual props and materials suggest a multiple printing and shooting process to shift the reality. Aisha does all her editing by hand. No photoshop, no easy tricks, just […]

Isabella Bubola is a fine art and portrait photographer based in Croatia. Aside from photography, she also works in the field of graphic design, jewellery design and runs Mirrored Mag – a blog focu...

The shortlist and 100 winners have been announced for this year's competition.

The National Portrait Gallery has announced that Claudio Rasano has won first place in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016. The Swiss-Italian photographer was awarded the respected accolade, and £15,000 prize, for his portrait of 18-year-old Johannesburg school boy Katlehong Matsenen.

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