A projection of 76 unselected entries from the National Portrait Gallery Photographic Prize 2011. This will take place immediately after the James Barnor talk.

Portrait Salon was set up in August 2011 to showcase some of the 5,973 unselected entries from the National Portrait Gallery Photographic Portrait Prize 2011.
Portrait Salon is based on the format of a Salon des Refusés in the wake of the Taylor Wessing prize at the National Portrait Gallery in 2011. It was set up by two portrait photographers (Carole Evans and James O Jenkins) in order to show as many of the rejected works as possible. After a call for submissions,
through which they received 600 images (almost 10% of the total number of the rejected images from the prize), a selection committee chose 76 of the best images for a projection event at the Roxy Bar and Screen in London, held at the end of November. All selected images are featured in a publication designed by Birch Studios Ltd.
Portrait Salon has just been awarded Arts Council Funding in order to run the event again this year. Carole Evans and James O Jenkins will present the 2011 projection, and talk about the motivations and inspirations of starting the project. There will also be an opportunity to buy a copy of the accompanying
publication.