Do you remember that portrait picture you spent a lot of time perfecting for the National Portrait Gallery's (NPG) Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize this year, which sadly didn't make it in the end? Don't fret about it; dig it back out of your photobook and look on with optimism.

Why? Well, Portrait Salon, a collective and an exhibition rolled up in one, is honouring the tradition of Salon des Refuses, which literally translates into "exhibition for rejects", by holding a show of "NPG rejections".

Not the friendliest of titles by any means, it is not to be confused with being a showcase for terrible works of photographic portraiture, but a legitimate and sincere way of showcasing what it believes will be an amazing body of work.

After all, of the 6,000 plus portraits that were rejected by the gallery, surely, as the organisers argue, there "must be some damn fine portraits which deserve to be shown".

The organisers – two anonymous London-based photographers – of Portrait Salon explain further on their website: "We want to see these portraits, and we want to celebrate their brilliance with a projection (time and place to be confirmed) which no doubt will be accompanied by a little bit of a party."

If you're one of the rejected photographers, do yourself a favour and give it another go – even the greats take knocks along the way to fame and respect.