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In the mirror: self portrait with Joy Hester

Photography and filming

Plan your visit

As long as it for personal use, you can take photos and videos of any of the portraits (except the ones with the No Photos icon).

Portrait of Heidi Middleton and Sarah-Jane Clarke (Sass & Bide)

Photography

Google Arts and Culture

Learning resources

The images and themes in this resource are designed to provide inspiration and to encourage critical thinking. For Year 11 and 12 students.

Sean Slattery

Sean Slattery

This is Davide Di Giovanni and he was a principal dancer for the Sydney Dance Company for six or seven years. He got in touch with me to do some video work together and he was just so amazing.

Ian Lloyd in November, 2007

About R. Ian Lloyd

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R. Ian Lloyd was born in Canada, studied photography in the U.S., and first arrived in Australia in 1975.

Shea Kirk

Shea Kirk

So this portrait here is part of a much larger series I've been shooting off and on for a number of years now.

Luther Cora

Luther Cora

Yeah, so it's my daughter. So, I shot this last year, I think on the Gold Coast, we had a little lockdown period, couple of lockdown period.

Gary Grealy

Gary Grealy

Winner, National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017

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Gary Grealy on his portrait photography.

Adams Apple, 2013 by Petrina Hicks

Petrina Hicks

More about In the flesh artists

Petrina Hicks has exhibited widely throughout Australia, and internationally, including Germany, Spain, France, Italy, USA and Japan. Her work was selected for screening in the 17th International Videobrasil (2011) and featured in Pingyao International Photography Festival, China (2010).

Heidi Margocsy

Heidi Margocsy

Perrin is an amazing amazing woman, and what I wanted to do with this particular sitting was create something raw and stripped back.

Paul Kelly 30.11.1980 by Liz Reed

Paul Kelly

Learning resource archive

A companion to our 2013 exhibition Paul Kelly & The Portraits. For Year 7 to Year 12 students.

Billy Mann 1963 by Larry Clark

Larry Clark

General content

Larry Clark's black-and-white documentary images of young outsiders reveal raw feelings.

Lauren Sutton and Poppy

Lauren Sutton and Poppy

My name's Lauren and this is Poppy, and this is obviously a self portrait of us taken last year in August when we sort of went into lockdown in Canberra.

Tarryn Gill standing in her studio next to a sculpture on a white plinth

Tarryn Gill

Artists and Collectives

Tarryn Gill is a Boorloo/Perth-based multidisciplinary artist who works across the mediums of sculpture, installation, photography, film, drawing, set and costume design, and performance.

Atong Atem standing behind a wooden table and next to a large leafy green plant

Atong Atem

Artists and Collectives

Atong Atem is an Ethiopian-born, South Sudanese artist and writer living in Narrm/Melbourne. Her work explores migrant narratives and postcolonial practices in the African diaspora.

Andrew George Scott, alias Captain Moonlite, c.1879 attributed to Charles Nettleton

The Portrait Gallery

General content

Photography played a significant role in the circulation of messages about law and order, and in the creation of sensation and celebrity.

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