Taylor Wessing Award

This year's annual London Photography Awards will go to another lucky winner who has also earned the right to have their photographs exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The award appeared in 2003. In 2006 and 2007 it was simply called the Photo Prize, and in 2008 the award was given a new name in honor of a new sponsor. It is now called the Taylor Wessing Portrait Award. We bring to your attention some of the best works.

(Total 12 photos)

1. A girl named Chelsea at a convention for a charity helping obese teenagers. 2010 (Photo by Abbie Trayler-Smith)

2. Photos of "Brean" from the series "(Not) safe houses". 2012. (Photo by David Brunetti)

3. Huntress. 2010. (Photo by David Chancellor)

4. Photo "Hug" from the project "Hot Ink". 2011. (Photo by Jonathan May)

5. "Tick-Tock and Tootsie" (twins Carroll and Shelley McKean). 2010. (Photo by Jeffrey Stockbridge)

6. Monet and Madi. 2011. (Photo by Maja Daniels)

7. "Wen". 2011. (Photo by Jasper Clarke)

8. "Harriet and Gentleman Jack." 2011. (Photo by Jooney Woodward)

9. "The Ventriloquists: Two Friends from South London". 2012. (Photo by Alma Haser)

10. "Mark Rylance." 2012. (Photo by Spencer Murphy)

11. Stas (15 years old), sentenced for murder, is in a juvenile colony, Russia. 2009. (Photo by Michal Chelbin)

12. Maria Teichreb, one of the Mennonites in Bolivia. 2012. (Photo by Jordi Ruiz Cirera)