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Ella B Rowe (right view), 2021

Shea Kirk

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022 Finalist

digital print on paper (frame: 137.7cm x 110.6cm depth 6.0cm)
Ella B Rowe (right view), 2021

Ella B Rowe, Papua New Guinean and Anglo/Australian descent. 'I had never truly seen a pregnant body until I saw my own. I've known personal transformations, but not like this one. When I look at parts of my growing motherhood, I see my mother, aunties, grandmothers, cousin sisters. I see a first home for my baby. I see sacrifice where doubt was never considered or had to be abandoned. I see my purpose explained. My sexual, intimate, private commitment to myself, presenting and healing me. A journey of transition, matrescence. Everything has changed and will never be the same again. I have surrendered to this great gift of life.'

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Shea Kirk
Video: 1 minute 48 seconds

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022
(More information, View all 50 photos)

Together We Stand
Barry Jones AC
Dragonflies
We were there shifting space, Shelley, 2021-2022

Other NPPP photos from Shea Kirk
(More information)

Ruby (left view), 2022 Shea Kirk
2023 Winner
Gemma Baxter (right view), 2019 Shea Kirk
2020 Art Handlers' Award
Callan Bradley Hales (left and right view), 2018 by Shea Kirk
2019 Finalist

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Silent Strength, 2021 Wayne Quilliam
Silent Strength, 2021 Wayne Quilliam
Silent Strength, 2021 Wayne Quilliam

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022

Previous exhibition, 2022

The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.
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