One of the world’s prestigious international portrait photography competitions has sparked a conversation about the nature of portrait photography after it awarded a top prize to a photo that doesn’t even show an actual human being: the portrait is of an android.
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in the […]. petapixel.com
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 Winners Announced A portrait of an android woman has beaten over 5,700 pictures of humans to take third place in this year’s prestigious Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize. dpreview.com »
2017-11-22 20:27
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2016-11-16 21:55
Photography competitions garner hundreds of thousands of entries per year and give away about as much money to a small subset of winners. But when those competitions are judged by well-known photographers —which is expected of any prestigious competition — this industry is small enough that it is mathematically impossible to avoid the possibility of a conflict of interest arising. [Read More]