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.
The €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.
Bringing together new work by photographers and lens-based artists at different stages of their careers, works in the exhibition are notable for spanning documentary, portraiture, conceptual and experimental approaches.
The inaugural event this year sees top honours going to longstanding lensman Conor Horgan, while Judges’ Selection Awards were presented to Laura Dunwoody and Salem Anowe Chukwuezi. Patryk Gizicki takes home the Photo Bursary.
Selected from over 1,300 submissions, these artists represent the depth, diversity and ambition of contemporary photographic practice across Ireland today. Their work engages directly with this year’s theme of Community, reflecting the social and political realities shaping our time.
Winning and shortlisted works will feature in a public exhibition at Photo Museum Ireland, Temple Street (Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2) from 22 April – 24 May 2026 after which the winning pieces will become part of the Taylor Wessing Irish Photo Prize collection and will be displayed at the Taylor Wessing offices.
The exhibition runs at Photo Museum Ireland until May 24th 2026. Admission is free
