National Portrait Gallery · West End
Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026
The Gallery's flagship photography prize — now sponsored by Winston Taylor and renamed the Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026 — returns with the best contemporary portrait photography from emerging talents and established names.
Anteprima: scritta prima dell'apertura della mostra
Neisser, 16, stands in full fencing whites in his family's living room in Pinar del Río, Cuba, between a bulky television and a landline trailing a tangle of wires. The wall behind him still shows hurricane repairs. James Clifford Kent says the five-minute encounter gave him the most emotive photograph of his 20-year career.
It is one of four shortlisted pictures in the Prize formerly called the Taylor Wessing, which drew 3,977 entries; 56 photographs made the show. Marcie Docherty's four men pose as an American football team in wrestling shorts and polished leather shoes. You'll know the winner before you go: it is announced on 3 November.
Tickets are £10 Monday to Thursday and £12 Friday to Sunday, and the Gallery recommends booking ahead. Pay What You Can slots run on Monday mornings.
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Neisser, Pinar del Río, Cuba
Look for the young fencer in white turning towards the only light, open shutters, with figurines, a TV and a tangle of phone wires around him.
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Four men in American football jerseys and helmets outside a plain suburban building, with wrestling shorts and polished leather shoes giving the costume away.
Moroccan (Amazigh) Cowboys
Mohmed leans back on a camel smoking while Nour, in jeans and boots, wears an Amazigh marriage blanket, a deliberate nod to the Marlboro Man.
Havannah, Lee Moor
A ten-year-old girl photographed on a cold day in a Devon village built around China clay pits, her gaze turned away from the camera.
Con i bambini
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Gratis nello stesso edificio
- Georgiani e vittoriani: 1714–1900 (Georgians and Victorians: 1714–1900)Scrittori, scienziati, soldati e riformatori — Reynolds, Gainsborough e i pionieri della fotografia ritraggono la Gran Bretagna in trasformazione.
- Il Novecento: 1900–2000 (Twentieth Century: 1900–2000)Dalle Suffragette agli Swinging Sixties – fotografie dell'epoca di Warhol, gli autoritratti di Hockney e i volti della Gran Bretagna moderna.
- Ritratti Contemporanei e FotografiaRitratti di nuova commissione, voci contemporanee diverse e la collezione di fotografia del XXI secolo della galleria al Floor 0.
- Tudors e Stuarts: 1485–1714L'Enrico VIII di Holbein, l'Elisabetta I nel suo Armada Portrait e i monarchi Stuart – sei secoli di potere su tela.
