National Portrait Gallery's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize innovates again by opening up the world-famous competition - with a £15,000 prize - to digital entries, as previous winners discuss how their careers took off despite the award's ongoing controversial reputation.
BJP's Breakthrough Sessions are open from 23 June - featuring leading industry speakers such as Vivienne Gamble (director, Seen Fifteen), Hamish Crooks (licensing director, Magnum Photos), Jaki Jo Hannan (senior creative producer, AMV BBDO) and Dominic Bell (Webber Represents) and the BJP Breakthrough Awards exhibition, featuring Ryan James Caruthers, Jocelyn Allen, Todd R Darling and Cathal Abberton
A psychotherapist for 15 years, Sian Davey switched careers to photography in 2014 and has made a success of it - she's now represented by Michael Hoppen Gallery, for example, and her book Looking for Alice was nominated for the Aperture Best Book Award at Paris Photo 2016, and the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Awards 2017.
With the fast-rising fashion photographer picked out for BJP's Ones to Watch issue, we're posting an article we published on his striking fashion story back in May 2016 - showing Welsh sisters Kyra and Evie sporting high-fashion in the beautiful Welsh valleys
Hadi Uddin grew up surrounded by photography - his father owned a commercial studio and both technical skill and the ways of the darkroom were second nature by the time he took his place by Uddin senior's side. He's now found work as a fashion photographer - and a unique vision in his personal work
Mac Lawrence's Hidden Dispositions examines the representation of masculinity in his home country, Australia, a place "shaped by conflict, toxic norms and a deeply fragile sense of masculinity". "Australian culture is rooted in racism, sexism and decades of white male dominance," he says.
How can art contribute to our understanding of justice in a time of global conflict? Award-winning photographer Edmund Clark considered the question with former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg and human rights lawyer Cori Crider at the IWM London - home to his ongoing show, War of Terror
Khadija Saye's mentor, Nicola Green, has set up the fund with Dave Lewis and Ingrid Swenson to help "young artists like Khadija to realise their potential" via study, informal training, internships or mentoring
With a Lebanese-American mother and an Emirati father, Farah Al Qasimi has lived much of her life between the United States and Abu Dhabi, where she grew up. Now completing a Master of Fine Arts at Yale, she is still oscillating between her two home nations, and producing work that explores home, belonging, representation and clarity.
"I'm not based anywhere yet," says Marco Zanella. Since inheriting his late Uncle Giorgio's camera collection, the Italian photographer has been on the move and taking pictures every day for the past 11 years. "I do not trust my memory, so I need to record it," he says.
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