#Taylor Wessing

[sheltiechicago]

David van Dartel: Billiew en Paduey II, from the series What Once Was

Dutch photographer David van Dartel’s series explores friendship and masculinity through portraits of young adults in European countries. Brothers Billiew and Paduey fled Sudan at a young age, settling in Glasgow. They were photographed on a trip to Loch Lomond, the first time they had visited the Scottish Highlands. Van Dartel’s portrait expresses the emotional intimacy, trust and vulnerability shared by the brothers, as a counterpoint to more traditional representations of masculine friendships

Taylor Wessing portrait prize

[shreyaajmani]

Vikram Kushwah’s ‘The Twins and the Green Car - 01’

Somewhere along the foothills of the Himalayas is a boarding school which provided much scope for Vikram Kushwah's imagination. The camera is Kushwah's medium to bring his daydreams to life. Shortlisted by the National Portrait Gallery, London, for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2019, and Portrait of Britain 2018 and 2019 winner—his compositions are where Pre-Raphaelite paintings and Deborah Turbeville's mysterious scapes meet. In 2023, Kushwah's work appeared in Coca-Cola's 'Masterpiece' global campaign, joining five contemporary artists alongside works by Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Turner, Vermeer, and Munch.

Excerpt from Vikram Kushwah’s profile for Bonhams.

Text by Shreya Ajmani

[ridethehammett]

HERE IS VENUS’ UNPROVOKED LIST OF THINGS #3

ROCKSTARS WHO I KNOW CAN BEAT THE 🐱 UP LET’S GO‼️

NUMBER ONE: COREY TAYLOR

this man literally screams manwhore so i mean it’s inevitable. he gives off that prideful energy that he knows what he’s doing during sex because he does.

NUMBER: WES BORLAND

MY WESSY WESS okay listen!

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thank you for listening!

NUMBER 3: SEAN KINNEY

yeah!

NUMBER 4: SID WILSON

DUHH. if you’ve seen his dj videos it’s self explanatory.

NUMBER 5: JOSH SILVER

i don’t need to explain myself to you he’d leave you in tears.

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

Claudio Rasano won the first place Taylor Wessing prize for the year’s best portrait photography

[mbsanandreas13]

💙 good morning 🤍

❤️ happy Sunday yall! Hope you enjoy ur day! Tonight is the last night of the eras tour in Miami, as today, Taylor & Travis are in action today, Travis is in the Bay Area, as the chiefs are taking on the 49ers today! It’s a hell of a day today for tayvis! 🤍

[projazznet]

Mal Waldron with John Coltrane – The Dealers

The Dealers is a 1964 album by jazz pianist Mal Waldron released on Status Records.

Mal Waldron — piano Bill Hardman — trumpet on side one Jackie McLean — alto saxophone on side one John Coltrane — tenor saxophone Paul Quinichette — tenor saxophone on side two Frank Wess — tenor saxophone and flute on side two Julian Euell — bass on side one Doug Watkins — bass on side two Art Taylor — drums

[victormalonso]

Mal Waldron & John Coltrane - The Dealers ( Full Album )

Mal Waldron — piano…. Bill Hardman — trumpet ( A1,A2 )…. Jackie McLean — alto saxophone ( A1,A2 )…. John Coltrane — tenor saxophone…. Paul Quinichette — tenor saxophone ( B1,B2 )…. Frank Wess — tenor saxophone and flute ( B1,B2 )…. Julian Euell — bass ( A1,A2 )…. Doug Watkins — bass ( B1,B2 )…. Art Taylor — drums…. ……………………………………………………………………………. A1 Blue Calypso 8:56 A2 Falling In Love With Love 11:37 B1 Dealin' 10:00 B2 Wheelin' 10:24

[chrisfriel]

taylor wessing 2013

i put a bunch of these portraits into taylor wessing in 2013 none were accepted

[madisonbeersource]

Could you recommend some of your favorite songs pls?

OMG OKAY THIS IS GONE B TENSE qsdfgfds w 777 hours of listening this year you can imagine i have plenty sdfgfd but i'll try for you!

Frank Sinatra - Under My Skin; Tracy Chapman - fast car; Nancy Sinatra - Shot Me Down; Nina Simone - Work Song; F.R David - Words; Talk Talk - Such a Shame; Pink Floyd - another brick in the wall; Tanita Tikaram - Twist In My Sobriety; The Eagles - Hotel California/New Kid In Town; Jevetta Steele - calling you

Kwabs - Walk; Sam Smith - Too Good At Goodbyes/Fire On Fire; James Arthur - Naked; Black Coffee & David Guetta - Drive; Eminem; The Ringer/Lose Yourself/Rap God; Rihanna - Russian Roulette; Sia - Alive/Unstoppable; Alan Walker - Lily; Lewis Capaldi - Before You Go; Bea Miller; Like That; Billie Eilish - Ilo Milo/I love You; Hailee Steinfeld - I Love You's; Zoe Wess - Control; Donna Missal - Keep Lying; Sasha Alex Sloan - The Only/Again/Santa's Real/House With No Mirrors; Sabrina Carpenter - Skin/Paris/BILAB/Already Over; Tones & I - Lonely/Just A Mess; J. Maya - Achilles heel; Britton - Liberated; Sabrina Claudio - Messages From Her; Faouzia - Tears Of Gold; Taylor Swift - All Too Well (the 10 minute version)/ Carolina; Cynthia Erivo - Stand Up; Sofi tukker - Forgive me

(I've got some more but those are only a small fraction of my fave songs sdfghgfds i tried to make it small sdfghgfd)

[soulmusicsongs]

Italian Soul

Italian Soul in 11 tracks

Beat Generation - I Marc 4 (I Marc 4, 1971)

Che Giorno È? - Wess and The Airedales (Vehicle, 1972)

Five Pop Four Pudding - Giovanni Tommaso With The Healthy Food Band (La Banda Del Cibo Salutare, 1970)

Loose - Group Meeting (Daybreak, 1976)

Motuproprio - Sandro Brugnolini (Musica Per Commenti Sonori, 1969)

Pasta and Fagioli - Alan Taylor ‎(Pasta & Fagioli / A Song For You = A Te Sola, 1977)

Polyphony - Sandro Brugnolini (Musica Per Commenti Sonori, 1969)

Prisencolinensinainciusol - Adriano Celentano (Nostalrock, 1972)

Silence - Roxy Robinson (Silence / Movies, 1976)

Slot Machine - The Duke Of Burlington (The Duke Of Burlington, 1970)

An Ugly Person - Orchestra Diretta Da Puccio Roelens (Quelli Belli Come Noi / An Ugly Person, 1969)

More Soul Songs

Funk from Spain in 12 tracks

Funk from Belgium

Soul from Holland  

[sheltiechicago]

Jake Green: Shaun Ryder

Depicting the iconic lead singer from the Happy Mondays, Ryder’s face is obscured entirely by vapour as suggested by Ryder during the photography session with Green

Taylor Wessing portrait prize

[ardn631matthewrimamate2024]

Photographer: Hendrik Kersten

Hendrik Kerstens is a Dutch photographer who, since 1995, has been photographing his daughter Paula. He was born in 1956 in the Hague, the Netherlands and is a self-taught artist. He began a series of photographing his daughter’s life, initially capturing her in everyday poses and attire, documenting intimate moments where she appears looking pensive in a swimsuit, or clutching herself after a bad sunburn. Kerstens gradually expanded his practice to create carefully composed portraits that playfully refer to the works of the Dutch Old Masters and the Italian Renaissance. These images use everyday items as props, such as a dishtowel or cream standing in for a maiden’s cloth and wig, and still rely on Paula as his primary subject. His photography was awarded a Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize from the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2008, and has been shown in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. He was given his first solo exhibition in the United States at the Museum for the City of New York in 2009, and he has since been commissioned for several covers of New York Times Magazine. He lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

[ayearincontent]

2024

key

bold = highlight of 2024

+ = not new in 2024

# = book club

books

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story, Nathan Thrall (2023)#

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. David McDuff) (1866)

Restless, William Boyd (2007)#

Ablutions, Patrick deWitt (2012)

The Hummingbird, Sandro Veronesi (trans. Elena Pala) (2021)

Faith, Hope and Carnage, Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan (2023)#

The Life & Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee (1983)

The Twilight Word, Werner Herzog (trans. Michael Hofmann) (2023)

Darryl, Jackie Ess (2021)

Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain (2000)

Caledonian Road, Andrew O'Hagan (2024)

Feet in the Clouds, Richard Askwith (2004)#

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life, Amy Key (2023)

Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan (2021)

A Box of Matches, Nicholson Baker (2004)

Jesus' Son, Dennis Johnson (2012)#

Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, Irvine Welsh (1996)

Sleepless, Marie Darrieussecq (trans. Penny Hueston) (2023)

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sachs (1985)#

The Memory Police, Yōko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder) (1994)

Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?, Claire Dederer (2023)

Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back, Torsten Bell (2024)

Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr. (1978)#

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami (trans. Philip Gabriel) (2007)

Foster, Claire Keegan (2010)

The Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)

films

Sound of Metal (2019)

Saltburn (2023)

The Two Popes (2019)

All of Us Strangers (2023)

Hell or High Water (2016)

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

Past Lives (2023)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)+

If Only I Could Hibernate (2023)

Searching for Sugarman (2012)

All the President's Men (1976)

The Informant (2009)

Force Majeure (2014)

Paterson (2016)

Anyone But You (2023)

Triangle of Sadness (2022)

22 Jump Street (2014)+

Before Sunrise (1995)

Before Sunset (2004)

Before Midnight (2013)

Arrival (2016)

Emily the Criminal (2022)

Hit Man (2023)

Shoplifters (2018)

About Time (2013)+

albums

'Stretch for the Stars' (EP), Joshua Idehen (2023)

'Shiver' (EP), The Libertines (2024)

'the record', boygenius (2023)

'Wall of Eyes', The Smile (2024)

'Promises', Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra (2021)

'Where's My Utopia?', Yard Act (2023)

'Cold Fact', Rodriquez (1970)

'Coming from Reality', Rodriquez (1971)

'What Now', Brittany Howard (2024)

'Mountainhead', Everything Everything (2024)

'This Ain't the Way You Go Out', Lucy Rose (2024)

'Blue', Joni Mitchell (1971)

'A Dream Is All We Know', The Lemon Twigs (2024)

'Romance', Fontaines D.C. (2024)

'Samurai', Lupe Fiasco (2024)

'This Could Be Texas', English Teacher (2024)

exhibitions

'Time is Out of Joint', National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rome)

'Philip Guston', Tate Modern

'Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990', Tate Britain

'Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize', National Portrait Gallery

'The Cult of Beauty', Wellcome Collection

'Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider', Tate Modern

live music

Ben L'Oncle Soul, Alcazar Live

Yard Act, Rough Trade East

Romy, Roundhouse

Dan Shake / Pretty Girl, Phonox

Lapsley, Moth Club

Berlioz, Brixton Academy

theatre

The Cherry Orchard, Donmar Warehouse

Dr Strangelove, Noel Coward Theatre

restaurants

Perilla, Stoke Newington

Felice a Testaccio, Rome

Salumeria Con Cucina Roscioli, Rome

Zahter, Carnaby Street

Beckford Inn, Tewksbury

Chez Bruce (*), Wandsworth+

Ottolenghi, Spitalfields+

Dalla Terra, Covent Garden

Faros, Soho

Little House, Balham

Ye Olde Hobnails Inn, Tewkesbury

Pot Luck Club, Cape Town

Scala Pasta / Bar, Cape Town

La Colombe, Constantia

El Burro, Cape Town

Franks Corner, Franschhoek

The Girl's On The Square, Wilderness

Pumba Game Reserve, Eastern Cape

Nest, Knysna

Maillard Baking Co, Knysna

Sirocco, Knysna

Coral, Mauritius

Kot Nou, Mauritius

Lemongrass, Mauritius

Le Benetier, Mauritius

Le Chamarel, Mauritius

Muang Thai, Camden

thirty7, Covent Garden

Morito, Hackney+

Nobu, Shoreditch+

Botanica Hall, Clapham Junction

Devonshire Terrace, Liverpool Street

Brutto, Farringdon

St John (bar), Smithfield

Mechela, Seville

Mamarracha, Seville

Caminata, Balham (x2)

Pasha Mangal, Balham (x2)

Hawksmoor, Air Street+

Dishoom, King's Cross

Som Saa, Spitalfields

180 House, The Strand

Three Uncles, Brixton (x2)

Balham Social, (...)Balham

The Duke of Malborough, Woodstock

The Perch, Binsey

Megan's on the Hill, Balham

Le Bab, Covent Garden

Well Street Pizza, Hackney

Mele e Pere, Soho+

Five The Beach, Clevedon

Ascough's Bistro, Market Harborough

The Inn at Freshford, Freshford

The Bird, Bath

Bussia, Amsterdam+

Bar Bouche, Amsterdam

Blue Fig, Balham

Flesh & Buns, Covent Garden+

Roka, Canary Wharf

Smoking Goat, Shoreditch

podcasts

Kermode & Mayo's Take+

The Russell Brand Podcast (Radio 2 / Audioboom / XFM)+

The News Agents+

The News Meeting+

Today in Focus+

The Adam Buxton Podcast+

Joel Golby's Book Club

Desert Island Discs+

Off Menu

Young Again+

The Louis Theroux Podcast

Conversations with Tyler

Freakanomics Radio

Double Jeopardy

The Lawyer Podcast

tv

Mr Bates v The Post Office (limited series)

The Traitors (series 2)

Six Nations: Full Contact (limited series)

One Day (limited series)

Gossip Girl (series 1-3)

Ripley (limited series)

Kin (series 1)

Gordon, Gino and Fred: Road Trip (series 1)

America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (limited series)

Industry (series 3)

Better Call Saul (series 1-5)+

talks

'Judges, Politics, and the Public: A Judge’s View from Inside Westminster' by Sir Nicholas Green, Leicester Lit&Phil Society

foreign travel (no 'favourites of the year', all excellent)

Rome

South Africa (Cape Town, Franschhoek, Wilderness, Pumba Game Reserve, Knysna)

Mauritius

Seville

Algarve (work)

Amsterdam

New York

Miami (work)

[whatsonmedia]

Unveiling the Canvas: A Global Art Odyssey in Late 2023

Dive into the world of art with David Hockney's vivid sketches at the National Portrait Gallery, Los Angeles' Rosemary Mayer retrospective, Tokyo's dynamic Art Week 2023, and Francis Alÿs's diverse body of work at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Join us on a visual journey, exploring the captivating exhibitions that define the late 2023 art scene. David Hockney: Drawing from Life” and “Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023 When: 2 Nov 2023 – 21 Jan 2024 (Hockney) | Where: National Portrait Gallery Experience the resurgence of David Hockney’s exceptional exhibition, “Drawing from Life,” alongside the annual Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize. From simple sketches to large-scale paintings, Hockney captures the personalities of his subjects. The National Portrait Gallery offers a captivating blend of Hockney’s artistry and contemporary portrait photography. For more information: https://www.npg.org.uk Rosemary Mayer: Noon Has No Shadows When: 12 Nov – 23 Dec Where: Hannah Hoffman and Marc Selwyn, Los Angeles Rosemary Mayer’s inaugural Los Angeles exhibition, “Noon Has No Shadows,” spans two galleries in the city. Selwyn features works from the late ’70s and early ’80s, while Hoffman presents a non-linear display of pieces created between the ’70s and ’90s. Mayer, a pivotal figure in conceptual, fiber, and feminist art, transitioned from conceptual engagement to sculptural practices exploring draping and material manipulation. A founding member of New York’s A.I.R. feminist collective, Mayer’s posthumous recognition includes major exhibitions and a book of correspondence with poet Bernadette Mayer, reflecting their feminist, humorous, and politically thoughtful approach. Art Week Tokyo 2023 When: 2 – 5 Nov Where: Okura Shukokan Museum of Fine Arts, and more. Immerse yourself in Tokyo’s vibrant contemporary art scene at Art Week Tokyo 2023. From November 2 to 5, this event, curated by Japan Contemporary Art Platform with Art Basel, links 50 art spaces through a free shuttle bus. Don’t miss the “AWT BAR” for artist-inspired cocktails and dishes by emerging chefs. Beyond exhibits, enjoy children’s tours, educational sessions, symposiums, and online talks with global curators. The diverse venues, including Okura Shukokan Museum of Fine Arts, promise an unforgettable art experience. ‘2023 Wolfgang Hahn Prize: Francis Alÿs’ When: Nov. 18, 2023—Apr. 7, 2024 Where: Museum Ludwig, Heinrich-Böll-Platz, 50667 Köln, Germany Join us for the opening reception and award ceremony on Friday, Nov. 17, at 6:30 pm, as we honor the remarkable artist Francis Alÿs with the 2023 Wolfgang Hahn Prize. His diverse body of work, spanning painting, drawing, installations, video, photography, and performances, will be showcased in the exhibition curated by Yilmaz Dziewior. From Nov. 18, 2023, to Apr. 7, 2024, explore Alÿs’s artistry at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, as he examines complex social realities through simple artistic gestures, addressing issues like migration, demarcations, and the consequences of globalization. For mere> https://www.museum-ludwig.de Read the full article

[christianhepburnba3photoimaging]

12th December -

This portrait communicates the desired emotion, character, and story I was aiming for? I like the expression of contemplation.

The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize The competition features a diverse range of images, including formal commissioned portraits..

The exhibition aims to tell the stories behind the creation of the works on display.

Submissions for the 2024 Prize will open in spring 2024.

The exhibition dates are from November 14, 2024, to February 23, 2025.

It has become one of the most renowned and highly respected photography competitions in the world.

The competition focuses solely on portraits captured through photography and aims to show diversity and creativity of contemporary portrait photography. It welcomes entries from both professional and amateur photographers globally.

The winning images, along with a selection of shortlisted entries, are showcased in a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, attracting a wide audience and critical acclaim