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Life and time

Portraits by Rod McNicol

Previous exhibition
from Saturday 20 June until Sunday 23 August 2015
Maryan, 2010 by Rod McNicol
Maryan, 2010 by Rod McNicol

Born in 1946, Australian photographer Rod McNicol has consistently analysed the passing of time through the evidence of the photographic portrait. At once confronting and tender, McNicol’s portrait photographs are bold and intimate. McNicol founded The Photographers Gallery in South Yarra Melbourne in 1975. He was awarded the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 for his portrait of Indigenous actor Jack Charles. This exhibition is developed in partnership with the Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne.

6 portraits

1 Kirat, 2010. 2 Tariro, 2010. 3 Dennis, 2006. 4 Jack, 2006. All by Rod McNicol.

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Rod McNicol

Dr Christopher Chapman (curator)

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