Taylor Wessing - Research/ Ideas/ Mood Board
Research
(quick notes on the competition)
Taylor Wessing portrait prize is a international competition that is open to all.
It celebrates and promotes the best in contemporary portrait photography from around the world.
It showcases young photographers, amateurs and professionals.
This year’s competition (2018) was judged by:
Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Chair (Director, National Portrait Gallery, London)
Miles Aldridge (Photographer)
Shane Gleghorn, Managing Partner, Taylor Wessing LLP
Sabina Jaskot-Gill (Curator of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, London)
Renée Mussai Renée Mussai (Senior Curator, Autograph ABP)
Sophie Wright (Global Cultural Director, Magnum Photos)
Miles Aldridge (Photographer)
Shane Gleghorn, Managing Partner, Taylor Wessing LLP
Sabina Jaskot-Gill (Curator of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, London)
Renée Mussai Renée Mussai (Senior Curator, Autograph ABP)
Sophie Wright (Global Cultural Director, Magnum Photos)
What is a portrait?
Portraiture is an old form of art going back at least to ancient Egypt. Before the invention of photography, a painted, sculpted, or drawn portrait was the only way that you could record what someone Looked like. Most portraits were used as a way to show a number of different things such as to show the power, importance, beauty, wealth, to name a few.
This Mind map is a few ideas that I had that could work for this project. I wanted to get a range of ideas that all could possibly work for the project.
The idea that I am most drawn to the idea is that of doing a shoot at an allotment, the reason for this is because I feel that the people that have allotment have a story to tell, and that the simplicity of the shoot will help to bring out the emotion and the detail would be very pretty.
