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"An image of his familyat prayer has won British photographer Ric Bower a place on a &amp;#163;15,000Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize shortlist at the NationalPortrait Gallery, according to Louise Jury of the Independent. Bower,38, joins contenders from Germany, Australia and Sweden. Bower&amp;#39;s placeas one of four on the shortlist from an original 6000 submissions,arrives straight after his graduation from Carmarthenshire College inWales, according to Jury. &amp;quot;His work, Three Generations (fromPrayer), depicts his children, Sharon and Jasmin, his wife Amber, andmother-in-law Mary West. It is part of a series exploring how and whypeople pray and was taken during the spring harvest Christian festivalat Butlins Minehead, in Somerset, earlier this year,&amp;quot; reports theIndependent. Also on the shortlist is German-born PhilippEbeling, 28. Ebeling had previously won the Observer Hodge PhotographicAward for a series of photographs of East London during a snow storm,notes Jury. Australian Shara Henderson, 27, is on the shortlist forGirl with Baby &amp;#8212; Poland. Jury writes that the &amp;quot;strength and beauty&amp;quot; ofthe figures captured in the shot helped Henderson overcome the languagebarrier that existed between them. Magnus Reed, 40, is a Swedish-bornphotographer now living in England. &amp;quot;Although his work has includedreportage on the war in Afghanistan and a documentary on the beatnikgeneration, he found the subjects of his shortlisted work, Amy andJack, near his home.&amp;quot; FOR MORE, CLICK: The Independent: &amp;quot;British photographer inspired by family at prayer wins place on portrait prize shortlist&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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