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Living MemoryNational Photographic Portrait Prize

Browsing Finalists from 2021

Joel B. Pratley

Drought story 2020

Julian Kingma

Tom at the drain 2020

R J Poole

Great conjunction 2020

Jessica Hromas

Mark and Saskia cool off 2021

Kristina Kraskov

I'm just a suburban fashionista 2021

Tajette O'Halloran

Leaving Melbourne (Battle wounds) 2020

Victoria Baker

Lauren 2019

Heather Dinas

Cactus flower 2019

Dr John Janson-Moore

NYE 2020 2021

Justin McManus

Stranded under a fire-red sky 2020

Davina Jogi

Reading the map 2020

Dion Georgopoulos

The Salway family 2020

Dion Georgopoulos

Wandella firestorm 2020

Matthew Newton

Anna 2020

Rachel Mounsey

Max 2020

Christopher Hopkins

Pride 2020

Suzanne Phoenix

The Wobbly Wizard - Isolation Portrait 2020

Julian Dolman

Back to earth 2019

Steph Fuller

Untitled 2020

Tamara Dean

The Goodall boys 2021

Guy Lamothe

The silent gardener 2020

John Morley, Madelin Bronar-Thomas and

Lockdown dreaming II 2020

Peter Morgan

Guy in his studio 2020

Alex Mattea

Her whole world now 2021

Benny Capp

Marty's living room 2020

Anne Cooper

I am Kerryn 2021

Riste Andrievski

One hundred years in living memory 2021

Greg Adams

I've been meaning to ... 2020

Tracy Ponich

Eleni and the bookshop 2020

Pia Johnson

Melissa Madden Gray, at home 2020

James J. Robinson

Kevin at Midnight 2020

Geoff Harvey

In another land 2020

Kalyanii Holden

The cat's out of the bag 2019

Sandy Scheltema

Hugs on hold 2020

Agi Davis

Bella in the window of her home school 2019

Sarah Vandermark

Let them eat cake, by Zoom 2020

Jill Velinos

Blue light hypnosis 2020

Mark Mortensen

In a world of her own 2021

Amanda Miller

And then came the night 2020

Living Memory
National Photographic Portrait Prize

Drought story
2020

Tom at the drain
2020

Great conjunction
2020

Mark and Saskia cool off
2021

I'm just a suburban fashionista
2021

Leaving Melbourne (Battle wounds)
2020

Lauren
2019

Cactus flower
2019

NYE 2020
2021

Stranded under a fire-red sky
2020

Reading the map
2020

The Salway family
2020

Wandella firestorm
2020

Anna
2020

Max
2020

Pride
2020

The Wobbly Wizard - Isolation Portrait
2020

Back to earth
2019

Untitled
2020

The Goodall boys
2021

The silent gardener
2020

Lockdown dreaming II
2020

Guy in his studio
2020

Her whole world now
2021

Marty's living room
2020

I am Kerryn
2021

One hundred years in living memory
2021

I've been meaning to ...
2020

Eleni and the bookshop
2020

Melissa Madden Gray, at home
2020

Kevin at Midnight
2020

In another land
2020

The cat's out of the bag
2019

Hugs on hold
2020

Bella in the window of her home school
2019

Let them eat cake, by Zoom
2020

Blue light hypnosis
2020

In a world of her own
2021

And then came the night
2020

Mask on inside
2020

New Year's Eve 2019
2019

Bill
2020

Jayden Bush on the salt pans I played on as a kid (Northern Adelaide, 2019)
2020

A Covid kind of day
2020

Emma Lee – flight
2021

Standing in the now and looking to the future
2020

Task at hand
2020

Childhood oblivion
2021

Before dark (Metamorphosis)
2020

Mike Low
2020

We make do in hard lockdown
2020

My father
2021

Surfer Rusty Miller
2021

Marion
2019

Sunbath under the lockdown
2021

Mullet magic
2021

Gen
2020

Artists in residence – Carlos, Jono and Lazy Susan
2020

Evie and Ruby at The Bend, Dec. 2019
2019

Cross-cultural wedding
2019

A girl and her boy
2021

Wombat and goats
2020

Trek for Shona Mai
2020

Love dogs
2020

The goal is not to live forever
2020

Inside: Tiggy
2020

Hana, Bobby and Mica in the lounge room
2020

Eight (vi)
2020

Leon
2020

Sun shower
2020

Dr B Marika AO
2020

Dining room
2020

Stage dive
2021

Isaiah Firebrace – reflect, reset, rejuvenate
2020