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Tim Fairfax, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2018

Katherine Bennett

The lady in the centre of this photograph is my partner's Granny. So we are almost directly related, and here, as with all photographic work. I am in a state of exchange though I think only directly, with one of the women!

Finalist interviews

Interviews with NPPP 2013 finalists Melanie Faith Dove, Simon Harsent, Ahmad Sabra, Sharon Zwi, Katherine Bennett, Krystal Seigerman, Arianne McNaught, Janet Tavener, Louise Whelan, Myles Nelson and Heather Corrigan.

Bangarra brothers: songman, storyteller, dancer

Creative kin

NPPP 2013 learning resource

Exploring select works from the NPPP 2012. For secondary students.

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2018

The Last Paul Mumme Work, 2015

Finalist, DPA 2016

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Supporters

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018

Images for media use will be available from 8 March 2018.

National Portrait Gallery unveils twenty new portrait commissions to celebrate twenty years

The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled twenty new portrait commissions of Australian leaders and individualists as part of its twentieth birthday celebrations in a new exhibition, 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.

Richard Tognetti #1510, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by Peter Weiss AO 2018

Announcing.... In their own words

Inspiring Australians tell their own stories in a unique new gallery audio tour, developed in collaboration with the National Library of Australia.

NPPP 2016 exhibition essay

Penny Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2016 Prize.