Taylor Wessing prize

Four photographers have been shortlisted for the 2009 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize - formally known as the Schweppes prize. Vying for the £12,000 prize are Londoner Paul Floyd Blake for his picture of an aspiring Olympic swimmer, Israeli Michal Chelbin for Stas, Sentenced for Murder, Juvenile Prison, Russia 2009 (above), Serbian-Canadian Mirjana Vrbaski for her portrait of an anonymous girl and Vanessa Winship for her photograph of a Georgian girl at a wedding.