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The photographs in Tough and tender by Warwick Baker reveal intimate connections and moments of closeness.

Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel HD digital video

Winner, MDPA 2014



Photographs from internationally acclaimed artists Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Collier Schorr and Chris Burden along with contemporary Australian artists, Rozalind Drummond and Warwick Baker will call the National Portrait Gallery home during our extraordinary winter exhibition Tough and Tender.

Press releases for media.

Delve into the lives, loves and labour of the world’s most prominent portrait galleries in this international conversation series.

The Board oversees the Gallery's strategic directions, objectives and governance.

An interview with the photographer.

Chairman Sid Myer AM, Deputy Chair Hayley Baillie, Tim Bednall, Jillian Broadbent AC, Patrick Corrigan AM, Marilyn Darling AC, Tim Fairfax AC, Sam Meers AO, John Liangis, Dr Helen Nugent AC, Nigel Satterley AM, Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Pakchung.

The winner of the Digital Portraiture Award 2016 has been announced. Congratulations to Amiel Courtin-Wilson for his submission titled Charles.

Penelope Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2020 Prize.

Anna Culliton never had a colouring-in book when she was little. Her parents –Tony, a filmmaker, and Stephanie, a painter – wouldn’t let her have one. Instead, they insisted on her drawing her own pictures to colour-in.

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