The National Portrait Gallery would like to congratulate the forty finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019.
This year over 3,000 entries were received for the Prize, presenting the judging panel - National Portrait Gallery Senior Curator Dr Christopher Chapman, artist and esteemed photographer Hoda Afshar and Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia Anne O'Hehir – the challenge of selecting the exhibition finalists.
‘The first stage of the judging process resulted in a long list of several hundred possibilities,’ Dr Christopher Chapman said. ‘Then the judges spent two days of intensive looking to arrive at the final group of 40 finalist photographs for the exhibition.
‘Entries were received from across Australia and we were impressed with how the strongest photographs show just how unique everyone’s life experience can be.
‘After a lot of discussion, we agreed wholeheartedly on the outstanding quality of the 40 photographic portraits created by the exhibition finalists. These portraits are characterised by an overall sense of assuredness and calm.’
The 40 finalists for the National Photography Portrait Prize 2019 are:
| Adam Ferguson Alan Weedon Alana Holmberg Aletheia Casey Alex Vaughan Daniel Boetker-Smith Dave Laslett Elizabeth Looker Ingvar Kenne Isabella Capezio James Brickwood Jamila Toderas Jay Hynes Jodi McConaghy Joel Pratley Jordan Madge Julian Kingma Kate Atkinson Katrin Koenning Kellie Leczinska |
Lee Grant Lilli Waters Madeline Bishop Max Mason-Hubers Mia McDonald Michael Murchie Natalie Nowotarski Nicholas Garcia Rachel Peachey Raphaela Rosella Rod McNicol Rosa Spring Voss Sarah Rhodes Shea Kirk Simon Harsent Stefanie King Stephen Baccon Tristan Still Wouter Van de Voorde Yask Desai |
The exhibition of the 40 finalist portraits will be displayed at the National Portrait Gallery Canberra from 23 February – 7 April 2019 followed by an exhibition tour.
The Winning and Highly Commended portraits and Art Handlers’ Award will be announced at the launch of the exhibition.
The Winning photographer will receive $30,000 in cash and $22,148 in photographic equipment, including a Mark II DSLR camera courtesy of our imaging partner and first prize sponsor, Canon.
The Highly Commended photographer will receive an EIZO ColorEdge CG2730 27" monitor valued at $3,245 courtesy of EIZO.
The Art Handlers' Award recipient will receive $2,000 cash.
IMAGES OF THE WORKS ARE WITHHELD UNTIL THE OPENING OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT PRIZE 2019 EXHIBITION IN FEBRUARY 2019.
