Portrait Salon: The striking profile photographs rejected for a major prize
Written by News on 21/11/2019
From a poignant image of a mother’s last Christmas and an intimate moment captured before a wedding, to a black-and-white profile of Ant and Dec and a snapshot of a bus journey – these are the striking images that were turned down for a major photography prize.
The photographs feature in the picks for 2019 by Portrait Salon, a salon des refuses – French for “exhibition of rejects” – that gathers images which did not make the cut for the prestigious Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, run by the National Portrait Gallery.
Portrait Salon was founded in 2011 by photographers Carole Evans and James O Jenkins, and a different judge is invited to make a selection each year.
Photographer Peter Dench, who chose his favourites this year, said: “Some of the selected portraits I found difficult to view (I still do). Others I could gaze at everyday (I might just). Some I wish I’d taken. Most I know I couldn’t…
“The selection, I hope, will move you and motivate, inform, encourage and engage. It’s what a portrait should do and in my opinion, these succeed.”
Here is a selection of picks for 2019.
The works will be displayed at the Royal Photographic Society in Bristol from 21 November to 24 November and at the Photo North Festival in Harrogate from November 30 to December 2
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