MPB Partnering with Scottish Portrait Awards | 2024
Published 19 December 2024 by MPB
For the third year running, MPB is proud to partner with the Scottish Portrait Photography Awards.
The awards have run for eight consecutive years and showcase the best in Scottish Portrait Photography.*
In 2024, the MPB Scottish Portrait Award in Photography will be open to conceptual and surrealist imagery as well as traditional portraiture. The concept of ‘portrait’ may be interpreted in the widest possible sense. The subject may be a self-portrait involving one or more people and/or including animals as long as these are secondary to the human subject. The aim is to create an exhibition with a powerful and exciting impact, showing diversity as well as strong story-telling through portraiture.
Jamie Prada | type: entry-hyperlink id: 5BnyVJveoUuVlCdwL5yNWy | type: entry-hyperlink id: 35jsYdbWFDV5UJLEdbj4st | 50mm | f/4 | 1/200 | ISO 400
The MPB Scottish Portrait Awards includes prizes of £2,000 each for the top portraits in colour and black and white. The winner of the MPB Young Photographer Award, for photographers aged 16–25 years, will receive £500 plus a voucher worth £250 to spend on used gear from MPB.
Photography is one of three main sections of the Scottish Portrait Awards, including Fine Art and Phone Photography awards. Opening in September, the Scottish Portrait Awards exhibition, including fifty photographic works, will travel around Scotland for six months visiting Edinburgh, Glasgow and the highland town of Banff.
David Boni | type: entry-hyperlink id: 1KA1rNo4xceoB804yNqhvX | type: entry-hyperlink id: 6OxA3vaBsCR9FDIW0jXZPI | 50mm | f/5.6 | 1/125ss | ISO 200
Submissions cost £10 per image. The competition is open to all artists who were either born in Scotland or, at the time of submission, were studying in Scotland or had their primary residence in Scotland. Enter now (via Scottish Arts Trust)
Entries close on Thursday, 2 May 2024, at 23:59 GMT.
Full terms & conditions apply (via SAT)