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Taylor Wessing’s UK arm will leave its verein and merge with leading US firm Winston & Strawn, while the verein’s China operations – including the Shanghai office, Beijing IP agency, and the Shenzhen office scheduled to open in 2026 – will remain unchanged. Oliver Bertram, global co-chair and managing partner of Taylor Wessing Germany, told China Business Law Journal that the Shenzhen office will…

Someone said to me: "It's a bit like paying tax. You have to do it, but you're not sure what you're getting for it." They were referring to the National Portrait Gallery's annual prize, sponsored by Taylor Wessing.

So, dutifully, as if preparing my annual tax return, a month or so ago (in good time for the deadline), I sat down and started looking over the portraits I had made in the previous 12 months or so. I enjoy this process and I think it’s important to get to know your own archive well. Like every year, I looked at last year's catalogue to divine any clues to success. The red-head thing has almost become a cliche and, as if to spite the mockers, last year the NPG put one on the cover of the 2015 exhibition catalogue. And of course, there was one amongst the group portrait by David Stewart that won first prize. The other clever thing the winner did was tip the wink to the judges. He made sure the judges knew he was a famous photographer, so they had more confidence picking his photo. No-one gets fired for choosing IBM, as they used to say. His winning photograph was a re-enactment of a photo that had been chosen for the exhibition in 2008, so the judges would probably have recognised it. Another way of tipping the judges' wink is to deliver a huge and lavish print, or by having The Queen of England as your subject. Aswell as communicating to the judges that you are already a successful photographer, this last method is also popular with the Gallery because they like to be able to advertise the exhibition with pictures of a few celebs. 

My six selections (click to see them) for 2016 don't have any redheads, though they do have a couple of very minor celebs. This year I also enlisted the assistance of the wonderful people at Metroprint to edit, print and deliver the prints. Yes, deliver. I’m banking on the prints being handed over in a classy package - to hopefully tip the wink to the judges.

Jooney Woodward es una fotógrafa nacida en Londres en 1979. Con una carrera todavía corta, ya ha sido galardonada con numerosos premios, entre ellos el Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize entregado por The National Portrait Gallery, que le fue concedido en 2011 por la primera foto que os enseño en este post "Harriet and Gentleman Jack". Os dejo con las imágenes que he podido obtener de su web.

Taylor Wessing Portraits Prize 2015

Since 2003, the National Portrait Gallery of London organizes each year the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize (formerly called Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize and Photographic Portrait Prize) : a competition dedicated to portraits, submitted by amateur or professional worldwide photographers. Among the 6000 submissions, 60 photographs are first selected. The director of the gallery…