If you have questions regarding your submission please contact:
Tara James
Exhibitions Projects Coordinator
National Portrait Gallery
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P: (02) 6102 7069
Entries close 11:59pm (AEDT) Thursday 4 March 2021
In recognition of the difficult year 2020 has been, the exhibition will be titled ‘Living Memory’. There will be more Finalists to create a larger exhibition and the Finalists work will be exhibited for a longer period. Each Finalist will receive a payment to support their participation in the exhibition, which for example the Finalist may like to use to pay for framing or printing. The NPG may also decide to offer tailored mentoring and professional development opportunities to Finalists.
No. Any photographic portrait taken during the entry period can be included.
Finalists will be paid $300 for each entry that is selected for exhibition at the NPG. If an entry is a collaboration between two or more artists, the artists will share the payment.
Finalists will need to provide a valid invoice to the NPG after 1 July 2021 to receive payment. Finalists will be advised of the process by the NPG.
Yes. The details of each artist will need to be provided when submitting the entry through the online entry portal.
‘Australian’ means an Australian citizen.
A ‘permanent resident’ is someone who holds a current permanent residency visa. Other visa holders are not eligible to enter.
No.
All entrants should complete a Subject Consent Form for each subject (and all Finalists will be asked to provide this). If it was not reasonably practicable for you to obtain written consent of your subjects, you will need to explain why on the entry form. Read the Terms and Conditions for the consent requirements.
The online entry portal allows you to manage your entries by uploading a new image to replace an existing entry up to the closing time for submissions. However, the NPG will not permit any refunds to entrants who decide they want to delete a paid entry that will not be replaced by another image.
You arrange for the return of your work. Information is included in the Terms and Conditions.
Yes.
Yes. Your work may consist of multiple images as part of one entry, however, if selected as a finalist these images must be printed and framed as one work within the maximum frame requirements (no larger than 140 x 140cm). For example, this could be presented as a diptych, a triptych, or it could feature multiple small portraits framed as one work. If entering multiple images as one entry, please ensure your uploaded jpeg file reflects the final presentation of how the images will be exhibited (i.e. how they would appear when framed on the gallery wall).
For the first round of judging, a panel of judges will select the Finalists by judging all entries digitally, using the information and images provided by each entrant in their submissions. The judges will select the prize winners from the shortlisted Finalists by seeing the framed works at the NPG. The winning portrait will be announced the day before the exhibition opens to the public.
At all stages, the decision of the judges is final and no discussion will be entered into.
The NPG will follow all government guidelines regarding COVID-19. Travelling exhibition venues will make their own decisions regarding how to reduce the risks associated with COVID-19, although the NPG will work with venues where appropriate. This may mean that the NPG or its travelling exhibition partners are unable to display the NPPP21 exhibition for the scheduled dates.
Both of these examples would be ineligible. For the purposes of this Prize, we understand a photograph to be ‘taken’ on the date of the actual shoot or sitting, not the date when the image is processed or digitally manipulated.
Due to the disruption caused by COVID-19, we are still finalising details for the second Darling Prize. We acknowledge what a hard year it has been for Australian artists and we are committed to working with them in the future. Our Darling mailing list will be the first to be informed; you can join here https://secure.portrait.gov.au/account/create/brief.
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.
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.
2019 National Photographic Portrait Prize judge Anne O’Hehir looks beneath the surface of this year’s entries.