Wellcome Photography Prize 2019

Entries are open for photographers and other image makers from all disciplines to enter the Wellcome Photography Prize which celebrates compelling imagery that captures stories of health, medicine and science.

Sir Henry Wellcome was born on the American frontier in 1853. Pharmacy interested him from a young age.

In 1880 he moved to the UK with his old friend Silas Burroughs to found a pharmaceutical company. They soon built the company into a multinational enterprise.

Prizes

• The winner of each category will receive £1,250, with the overall winner receiving a prize of £15,000.
• Prizes will be presented at an awards ceremony in London on 3 July 2019.

Categories

There are four categories in the competition:

• Social perspectives – explore how health and illness affect the way they live
• Hidden worlds – reveal details hidden to the naked eye
• Medicine in focus – show health and healthcare up close and personal
• Outbreaks (2019 theme) – capture the impact of disease as it spreads.

Techniques

Applicants are open to entries created with the following techniques, or any other applicant want to use:

• photography (eg documentary, clinical, studio, still life)
• close-up photography (eg photomacrography, macro photography, photomicrography)
• microscopy (eg light, electron, super-resolution)
• medical imaging (eg CT, PET, MRI, X-ray, ultrasound, thermography)
• new and emerging imaging technologies
• data visualisation
• artistic media (eg illustration, 3D printing, sculpture, ceramics, mixed media).

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