THE TAYLOR WESSING PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT PRIZE 2018

Ray Long photographed by Alice Zoo

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize is a leading international competition which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography from around the world.

Amongst the fifty-seven works from the 2018 prize displayed at the National Portrait Gallery until January 2019 was a portrait of Ladies’ Pond swimmer Ray Long, taken by Alice Zoo, a talented young photographer who was granted permission to take a limited number of shots at the Ladies’ Pond.

Congratulations and thanks to Alice for creating this beautiful image (postcards of which can be purchased at the National Portrait Gallery).