Winston Taylor Portrait Prize 2026
Visit
The Winston Taylor Portrait Prize 2026 is on at the National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, from 5 November 2026 to 17 January 2027.
Sunday – Thursday: 10:30 AM – 6:00 PM (last entry at 5:30 PM)
Friday – Saturday: 10:30 AM – 9:00 PM (last entry at 8:30 PM)
Closed: 24 – 26 December
I'm thrilled to share that my portrait 'Ti'Boule' has been selected for the Winston Taylor Portrait Prize 2026 (formerly the Taylor Wessing) — my first work to be publicly exhibited. It is currently on show at the National Portrait Gallery until 17th January 2027.
Support the Full Exhibition
My hope is to exhibit Mi Racine An Mwen in full — all four generations, together, in the rooms they deserve.
Gallerists, curators, patrons, collectors, publications or collaborators interested in supporting a show of the complete series, please reach out as I would love to hear from you. Whether it's exhibition space, a conversation, press, print sales, or a way I haven't thought of yet — please get in touch.
The Portrait
'Ti'Boule' is a portrait of my cousin, shot on our grandmother's lawn in Guadeloupe. I carried a Mamiya RZ67 and a bag of Kodak Gold 200 across the Atlantic to make it, and the overweight-baggage fees were worth every penny. One of my favourite people in the whole world, caught in a place that holds so much of our family's story.
Shot on Kodak Gold 200, Mamiya RZ67. Developed, scanned and handprinted at Bayeux Ltd in London.
The Series — 'Mi Racine An Mwen'
'Ti'Boule' belongs to Mi Racine An Mwen — 'My Roots' in Creole — a personal series in which I photographed and interviewed four generations of my family, in Guadeloupe and here in the UK. The project is an exploration of understanding my own heritage as a second-generation immigrant born and raised in South London, and to spend real time with the people who carry that heritage with me.
Through lives that are nearly 100 years apart, I learnt about what connects each generation to their Guadeloupean heritage and what they hope for future generations who question their validity to their heritage.
What started as a way to document my family has grown into a project that resonates with the diaspora at large. Second-generation immigrants often have questions about where we come from and share the experience of wanting to know our ancestors on a deeper level.
It's about memory, migration, and the constant work of staying connected to where you come from — on film, in Creole, in the places that made us.