National Portrait Gallery announces Shortlist for Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024

62 portraits by 55 photographers are set to be displayed at the Gallery this November, with the prize-winning shortlist representing talent from across the globe, from the UK and the Netherlands to South Africa and Australia.

Photographs will be exhibited alongside this year’s In Focus display by Diana Markosian, who will exhibit work from her new publication, Father.

The exhibition will be open from 14 November 2024 until 16 February 2025. The winner of the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize will be announced on Tuesday 12 November 2024.

Four photographers have been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024, the prestigious photography award organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London. The shortlisted works will be displayed in the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024 exhibition, open from 14 November 2024 until 16 February 2025.

Selected by a panel of judges from 4,847 entries, submitted by 1,713 photographers, the four shortlisted photographers are:

• Adam Ferguson for Pintupi-Luritja Lutheran Pastor Simon Dixon, Ikuntji/Haast Bluff, Arrernte Country, Northern Territory; Cousin sisters Shauna and Bridget Perdjert, Kardu Thithay Diminin Clan and Murrinhpatha language group Kukatja Pintupi boy Matthew West, hunting trip – all from the series Big Sky.

• Jesse Navarre Vos for Mom, I’ll follow you still – from the series I’ll come following you.

• Tjitske Sluis for Mom – from the series Out of Love, Out of Necessity

• Steph Wilson for Sonam – from the series Mother Book

The 2024 judging panel included multimedia artist Pogus Caesar; curator Alona Pardo; writer and curator Lou Stoppard; and the National Portrait Gallery’s Curator of Photography Clare Freestone.

Alongside the monetary prizes for first, second and third place, a commission to the value of £8,000 will be awarded to one of the shortlisted photographers. Supported by Taylor Wessing, the chosen photographer will create an artwork that will form part of the world’s largest collection of portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery. Serena Brown, winner of the inaugural commission prize in 2023, will unveil her new portrait for the Collection at this year’s award ceremony in November.