The Spanish photojournalist César Dezfuli was named winner of the 2017 Taylor Wessing prize at a ceremony on Tuesday night at London’s National Portrait Gallery, the award’s organisers. Judges said that, set against the balance and precision of Dezfuli’s composition, “the directness of Sumaila’s gaze is striking and unsettling. Third place went to a portrait which has raised some eyebrows because it is not a human portrait. Instead Maija Tammi’s photograph is of an android called Erica, created at the Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories in Osaka, Japan. Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize review – the unflinching gaze of a worthy winner Read moreThe winning photographs and those chosen for inclusion in the annual Taylor Wessing exhibition were chosen from 5,717 submissions entered by 2,423 photographers from 66 countries.

Source: The Guardian November 14, 2017 20:15 UTC