Entertainment: Baby portrait wins Taylor Wessing photography prize

Titlow said: "the composition and back light was so perfect that I had to capture the moment"

Fashion photographer David Titlow has won the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize for a shot of his baby son meeting a dog for the first time.

Dobson's portraits follow young girls being educated by a former skate school in Afghanistan

The composition was captured by Titlow the morning after a large midsummer party in Sweden and has won the former musician a £12,000 prize
Second place was awarded to Jessica Fulford-Dobson for her portrait of a young Afghani girl with a skateboard.
A photo of nine-year-old Estonian twins by Birgit Puve came third.
Of his winning shot, Titlow said: "Everyone was a bit hazy from the previous day's excess.
"My girlfriend passed our son to the subdued revellers on the sofa - the composition and back light was so perfect that I had to capture the moment".
Head judge Sandy Nairne, who is director of the National Portrait Gallery, called Titlow's portrait a "fascinating and compelling image".
Skateistan After sifting through more than 4,000 submissions from 1,793 photographers, the judges selected just 59 portraits for an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
The runner-up, freelance photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson, documented Afghan girls who attend Skateistan - an NGO born out of a small skateboarding school that met around an old, disused fountain in Kabul.
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