Portrait Salon

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Portrait Salon is a competition that aims to show the best of the rejected photographs from the juried Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. A judge is usually invited to make the selection and the work is shown in a number of exhibitions and in an accompanying catalogue. [1] [2] [3] It was founded in 2011 by Carole Evans and James O Jenkins. [3]

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The portrait photography competition took place in 2011, [3] 2012, [2] [1] 2013, [4] 2014, [5] [6] 2015, [7] [8] 2016, [9] 2017, [10] [11] 2018 (when it also accepted rejections from the Portrait of Britain competition), [12] and 2019. [13] [14]

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  2. 1 2 "Face time: Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize gives exquisite collection of". The Independent. 18 November 2012. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  3. 1 2 3 "Portrait Salon: The striking profile photographs rejected for a major prize". Sky News. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  4. ↑ "In pictures: Portrait Salon 2013". BBC News. 21 November 2013. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  5. ↑ "Human behaviour: the forgotten gems of 2014's portrait photography – in pictures". The Guardian. 7 November 2014. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  6. ↑ "Portrait Salon 2014". BBC News. 5 November 2014. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  7. ↑ Jones, Captions by Jonathan (17 November 2015). "Rogue gallery: rejects from the Taylor Wessing Portrait prize – in pictures". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  8. ↑ "Rejected portraits live again". BBC News. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  9. ↑ "Another shot: highlights from Portrait Salon 2016 – in pictures". The Guardian. 21 November 2016. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  10. ↑ "Bored teens and drag queens: Portrait Salon 2017 – in pictures". The Guardian. 16 November 2017. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  11. ↑ "The best photos rejected from the National Portrait Gallery's Taylor Wessing Prize". BBC News. 17 November 2017. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  12. ↑ "Portrait Salon: Eighth Edition". 15 November 2018. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  13. ↑ "The best photos rejected from the National Portrait Gallery's Taylor Wessing prize". BBC News. 21 November 2019. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  14. ↑ "Wider angle: highlights from the Portrait Salon 2019 – in pictures". The Guardian. 21 November 2019. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2022-01-06.
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