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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

Untitled, 2024 (detail) Anu Kumar

Untitled

Anu Kumar
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Fatima, 2016 by Anu Kumar

Fatima, 2016

by Anu Kumar
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Part 13 of Untitled, 2019 Anu Kumar

Part 13 of Untitled

Anu Kumar
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Part 16 of Untitled, 2023 Anu Kumar

Part 16 of Untitled

Anu Kumar
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Part 14 of Untitled, 2023 Anu Kumar

Part 14 of Untitled

Anu Kumar
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Part 1 of Untitled, 2023 Anu Kumar

Part 1 of Untitled

Anu Kumar
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Part 12 of Untitled, 2018 Anu Kumar

Part 12 of Untitled

Anu Kumar
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Part 14 of Untitled, 2023 Anu Kumar

if only we could take the time

Magazine article by Sonia Nair, 2025

Sonia Nair looks at Anu Kumar, whose portraiture practice preserves the intimate, in-between moments of her hometown in India.

Collaboration – Sam Goraya, 
Santosh Ram and Samir Kumar Panigrahi backstage before a performance of Kundalini: The Awakening!, n.d. Zlatko Varenina

Collaboration – Sam Goraya,
Santosh Ram and Samir Kumar Panigrahi backstage before a performance of Kundalini: The Awakening!

Zlatko Varenina
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Collaboration – Sam Goraya, 
Santosh Ram and Samir Kumar Panigrahi backstage before a performance of Kundalini: The Awakening!, n.d. Zlatko Varenina

Collaboration – Sam Goraya,
Santosh Ram and Samir Kumar Panigrahi backstage before a performance of Kundalini: The Awakening!

Zlatko Varenina
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where will the story take us, 2002-2024 (printed 2024) (detail) Katrin Koenning

if only we could take the time: contemporary Australian photography

Previous exhibition, 2024

This show, staged alongside the major exhibition Carol Jerrems: Portraits, spotlights the work of three contemporary Australian artists whose work sits in dialogue with Jerrems’ legacy.

Portrait 72

Portrait 72

Magazine

Thom Roberts reveals the stories behind some of his portraits, Rebecca Harkins-Cross on Carol Jerrems, and Daniel Browning reflects on Tracey Moffatt’s 1986 series Some lads.

Bourgeois family: Mirror frieze, 2001 From the series Re-take of Amrita
by Vivan Sundaram

Vivan Sundaram

by Rakhee Balaram
Artist essays

Born in 1943 in Simla, Vivan Sundaram’s long career has given him opportunities to work in a range of mediums – painting, installation, assemblage, photography, digital media and film.

Trevor Jamieson, 2016 by Brett Canet-Gibson

The more things change...

NPPP 2017 exhibition essay
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Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.

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