Since 1993, the annual Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize has celebrated and promoted the best in contemporary portrait photography. This year’s winner is London-based Alice Mann, who is the first photographer to win the prize for the series of portraits – hers documenting South African drumming majorettes from the Western Cape. Mann, who spent three months documenting the project, said she wanted to “create images that reflect the pride and confidence the girls achieve through identifying as ‘drummies’”. The winning series will be exhibited alongside other entries at the National Portrait Gallery.
Taylor Wessing photographic Portrait Prize 2018. The National Portrait Gallery, London, 18 October 2018 – 27 January 2019.
