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Hump days
Magazine article by Jessica Bolton, 2017
Jessica Bolton navigates the parallel tracks documenting Robyn Davidson’s astonishing journey.
Sketches and sermons
Magazine article by Jessica Smith, 2009
Jessica Smith looks at the 'fetching' portrait of Tasmania's first Anglican Bishop, Francis Russell Nixon by George Richmond
Jumpstart
Magazine article by Helena Bezzina, 2009
Jessica Herrington won the inaugural National Youth Self Portrait Prize in 2008 with a work about the difficulty we have revealing ourselves in front of the camera.
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Magazine
Ryan Presley about portraiture, Emma Kindred on the career of Joan Ross, Ellie Buttrose looks at Archie Moore’s kith and kin, and Joanna Gilmour steps into the world of Julie Rrap.
Now and then
Polly Cutmore
Magazine article, 2023
Photographed 35 years apart, these two portraits offer both a timeline of, and thematic thread for, Maria (Polly) Cutmore’s life – from a young woman to a respected Gomeroi Elder.
Judicial portraits
Magazine article by Leslie Moran, 2007
Leslie Moran investigates the portraits of judges in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
For the boys
Magazine article by Alistair McGhie, 2011
The photographs from Matthew Sleeth's tour of duty series look more like advertisements than images of war.
Tiny Trace of a Colonial Giant
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2004
At just 7.8 x 6.2 cm, the daguerreotype of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa is one of the smallest works in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
Elle on wheels
Magazine article by Lucy Quinn, 2013
Lucy Quinn compares the approaches of three photographers lured to the action and culture of roller derby.
Private virtues public lives
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2010
Family affections are preserved in a fine selection of intimate portraits.
Moving still
Magazine article by Anne O'Hehir, 2022
Anne O’Hehir on the seductive power of the film still to reflect and shape ourselves and our cultural landscape.
Flash mob
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2019
Sarah Engledow trains her exacting lens on the nine photographs from 20/20.
Petal to the mettle
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2019
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.