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National Photographic Portrait Prize 2025

Teacher Guide and Learning Resource

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This resource is designed to help secondary teachers create learning experiences that engage students with artists, sitters, themes and stories from the National Photographic Portrait Prize. The exhibition supports and celebrates the vitality and diversity of photographic portraiture in Australia.

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Thelma Plum, 2024 Em Jensen
Thelma Plum, 2024 Em Jensen
Thelma Plum, 2024 Em Jensen
Thelma Plum, 2024 Em Jensen

Winning works

Explore the winning portrait as well as the winners of the People’s Choice, First Time Finalist and Art Handlers awards.
Bather, 2024 Gerwyn Davies
Bather, 2024 Gerwyn Davies
Bather, 2024 Gerwyn Davies
Bather, 2024 Gerwyn Davies

Self portraits

Explore how three artists approach photographic self portraiture.
120 Racecourse Road, 2025 Basil Abubaker
120 Racecourse Road, 2025 Basil Abubaker
120 Racecourse Road, 2025 Basil Abubaker
120 Racecourse Road, 2025 Basil Abubaker

Place

Consider the significance of place when telling someone’s story.
Blue Tongue, 2025 Natalie Grono
Blue Tongue, 2025 Natalie Grono
Blue Tongue, 2025 Natalie Grono
Blue Tongue, 2025 Natalie Grono

Identity

Discover the way that artists reflect their subjects’ identities through portraiture.
Aida Azin, 2024 Emmaline Zanelli
Aida Azin, 2024 Emmaline Zanelli
Aida Azin, 2024 Emmaline Zanelli
Aida Azin, 2024 Emmaline Zanelli

Process

Explore how process becomes part of a portrait’s story.

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