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Published 3 March 2023

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RBSA Photography Prize 2023: Prize Winners Announced!

Photograph of a woman in a sewing factory

The RBSA Photography Prize Exhibition is hosted biennially to celebrate photographic art. Now in its fifth year since launching in 2015, the Photography Prize invites entries from all artists creating work using photographic processes.

Featuring 100 works from over 70 artists, this exhibition showcases the best of contemporary photography with the inclusion of both established and emerging photographers. A wide range of styles, techniques, and practices are on display, including modern DSLR, medium format film, 35mm film, collage, cyanotypes, and more.

This year, the works were selected and prizes awarded by:

Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora, Award-Winning Visual Artist, and winner of the GMC Trust 1st Prize in the 2021 RBSA Photography Prize

Max Kandhola, Photographer and Principal Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University

Nathan Tromans, Associate Professor and Head of Birmingham Institute of Creative Arts at Birmingham City University

And Frame Creatives awarded the second prize.

RBSA Photography Prize 2023: Prize Winners Announced!

GMC Trust First Prize: £1,000

Billy Dosanjh, Whole Submission

Photograph of the backs of a terrace of houses at night

Billy Dosanjh, Dayshift, 2019, C-type print, £15,000, editions available

Photograph of a woman in a sewing factory

Billy Dosanjh, Seamstress, 2022, C-type print, £10,000, editions available

Frame Creatives Second Prize: £500

Briana Quintanilla, A Morning with Ventci Part I, 2022

Briana Quintanilla, A Morning with Ventci’ Part I, 2022, medium format film, £200

GMC Trust Third Prize – £250

Anna Sellen, Drip By Drip We Are Fed With Concrete, 2022

Photograph of sand on top of a black and white photograph of a soldier

Anna Sellen, Untitled, from the series Drip by drip, we are fed with concrete', 2022, photograph, £120, editions available

Photograph of a control panel on top of a black and white image of a soldier's head and shoulders

Anna Sellen, Untitled, from the series Drip by drip, we are fed with concrete', 2022, photograph, £120, editions available

RBSA Solo Show Prize Winner

Ben Parker, Whole Submission

Man in fluffy chicken suit sitting outside a fish and chip shop

Ben Parker, Wonderfully Mundane, 2021, photograph, £482, prints available

Photograph of a large inflatable duck on a pond with a person reclining inside

Ben Parker, A British Summer, 2022, photograph, £482, prints available

Photograph of four people wearing suits back to front standing around a monolith of rock

Ben Parker, The Monolith, 2022, photograph, £482, prints available

Highly Commended

Amber Banks Brumby, Whole Submission

Photograph of a girl's legs and trainers as she sits fishing

Amber Banks Brumby, From Female Anglers Series, 2022, giclee print, £300

Photograph of a woman seated on a river bank

Amber Banks Brumby, From Female Anglers Series, 2022, giclee print, £300

Photograph of a woman in a greenhouse watering plants

Amber Banks Brumby, Summer's Mother, 2021, giclee print, £300

Olivia-Rose Barns, 1982, 2022

Black and white woven photo collage of three women — Olivia-Rose Barns, 1982, 2022, archived woven images, £150

Louise Haywood-Schiefer, Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko with daughter Sophia, 2022

Photograph of a woman holding a toddler — Louise Haywood-Schiefer, Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko with daughter Sophia, 2022, photograph, NFS

Tom Merilion, Between Light and Dark Series, 2022

Photograph of a child's swing in front of grasses

Tom Merilion, Between Light and Dark 07, 2022, Photograph, £1,000

Photograph of a man's back as he sits in a chair leaning forwards

Tom Merilion, Between Light and Dark 11, 2022, Photograph, £1,000

Photograph of a man sitting in the sun with a hat

Tom Merilion, Between Light and Dark 14, 2022, photograph, £1,000

Debbie Todd, Pat with the Head of Chris the Postman, 2022

Renaissance style photograph showing a group of people standing round the severed head of a man — Debbie Todd, Pat with the head of Chris the Postman, 2022, digital image printed onto material, £300, prints available

Candice Yee in collaboration with Nachael Catnott, Revisitations, 2023

Black and white photograph of a woman standing with her head back, wrapped in printed fabric — Candice Yee in collaboration with Nachael Catnott, Revisitations, 2023, fine art print, £325

The Photography Prize Exhibition runs till Saturday 8 April

Artists’ Talk: Saturday 8 April 2.00 – 3.00pm. Join some of the exhibiting artists for a guided tour of the exhibition.

The Photography Prize Exhibition is kindly sponsored by The Galliard Apsley Partnership.