Salem Anowe Chukwuezi, Philip Arneill, Lisa Bennett, Deirdre Brennan, Missy Brinkmeyer, Michael Cassidy, Shane Coughlan, Michael Croghan, Laura Dunwoody, Cat Gundry-Beck, Caroline Guinan, JP Keating, Joe Laverty, Xuying Li, Jeanette Lowe, Jillian McGrath, Emma O’Brien, Keelin O’Shea, Chris Reid, Emily Roche, Blaise Smith, Laura Smith.

The Taylor Wessing Irish Photo Prize is a major new annual award established to champion the excellence, vitality, and diversity of contemporary photography in Ireland.

Selected from diverse submissions across the island, the exhibition presents the First Prize Award winner, two Judges’ Selection Award winners, a Bursary Award recipient and 30 shortlisted artists selected through Ireland’s largest combined prize fund for contemporary photography, totalling €25,000

Presented in partnership with Taylor Wessing, Photo Museum Ireland and Business to Arts, the Taylor Wessing Irish Photo Prize is a long-term investment in photographic practice in Ireland. The exhibition brings together new work by photographers and lens-based artists at different stages of their careers, spanning documentary, portraiture, conceptual and experimental approaches.

Congratulations to our Shortlisted Artists: Chad Alexander, Salem Anowe Chukwuezi, Philip Arneill, Niamh Barry, Lisa Bennett, Deirdre Brennan, Missy Brinkmeyer, Michael Cassidy, Ishmael Claxton, Polina Cosgrave, Shane Coughlan, Michael Croghan, Evanna Devine, Laura Dunwoody, Patryk Gizicki, Cat Gundry-Beck, Caroline Guinan, Conor Horgan, Shane Hynan, JP Keating, Joe Laverty, Xuying Li, Jeanette Lowe, James Mahon, Jillian McGrath, Yvette Monahan, Emma O’Brien, Clodagh O’Leary, Mandy O’Neill, Keelin O’Shea, Chris Reid, Emily Roche, Blaise Smith, Laura Smith.

The Taylor Wessing Irish Photo Bursary 2026: This €10,000 award has been established to support an artist working in photography or lens-based media who identifies as being from an underrepresented background. The Bursary aims to facilitate time and space through financial resources to enable the recipient to further develop their practice. See submission guidelines below.

The Exhibition & Taylor Wessing Collection Winning and shortlisted works will feature in a major public exhibition at Photo Museum Ireland from 22 April – 24 May 2026, accompanied by a national and international media campaign, after which  the winning works will become part of the Taylor Wessing Irish Photo Prize collection that will be displayed at Taylor Wessing offices at the National Portrait Gallery in the UK.