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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.

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William Johnson

William Johnson was a commercial photographer who operated a studio on the corner of Pitt and Market Streets in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s.

4 portraits in the collection

Frances Saville

Frances Saville

Frances Saville (1865-1935), soprano, came to Australia from San Francisco as a small child.

1 portrait in the collection

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Helga Leunig

Helga Leunig, née Salwe, was working as a professional photographer at the Age in the late 1980s when she met Michael Leunig, cartoonist.

4 portraits in the collection

Sir James Reading Fairfax

Sir James Reading Fairfax KT

James Reading Fairfax (1834 -1919) was the second of John Fairfax's sons to join him in business.

1 portrait in the collection

Noah Taylor

Noah Taylor

Noah Taylor (b. 1969) left school at 16 to join Melbourne's St Martin's Youth Theatre.

1 portrait in the collection

Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch AC KCSG

Rupert Murdoch AC (b. 1931) is widely regarded as the world's most influential media mogul.

2 portraits in the collection

Carla Zampatti

Carla Zampatti AC

Italian-born Carla Zampatti AC (1942–2021) moved to a small town in Western Australia with her family in 1950.

1 portrait in the collection

Rod Laver

Rod Laver AC

Rod Laver MBE (b. 1938), tennis champion, is the only player in the history of the game to win the Grand Slam twice.

1 portrait in the collection

Lloyd Rees

Lloyd Rees AC CMG

Lloyd Rees AC CMG (1895–1988), artist and teacher, studied art in Brisbane from 1910 to 1916, and in England and Europe in the early 1920s.

12 portraits in the collection

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Former photographer phra ajahn ekaggata (formally known as terry milligan), was born in San Francisco and lived in various locations in the USA and Australia before discovering the small town of Braidwood, near Canberra.

7 portraits in the collection

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Robert McFarlane

Robert McFarlane (1942–2023), photographer, was born in Glenelg, South Australia.

31 portraits in the collection

Andrew Steiner

Andrew Steiner OAM

Holocaust survivor, sculptor and human rights advocate Andrew Steiner OAM (b.

1 portrait in the collection

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Georges Antoni

Georges Antoni (b. 1975), fashion photographer, grew up in a small town in central Queensland.

2 portraits in the collection

Cate Blanchett and Ernie Dingo

Ernie Dingo

Ernie Dingo AM (b. 1956), television presenter and actor, is a Yamatji man.

1 portrait in the collection

Dadang Christanto

Dadang Christanto

Dadang Christanto (b. 1957), artist, was born into an Indonesian family of Chinese descent in Tegal, a small village in Central Java, Indonesia.

1 portrait in the collection

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Maurice Newman AC

Maurice Newman AC (b. 1938), a career stockbroker, was chairman of ASX from 1994 to 2008, during which period the Australian Securities Exchange was created by the merger of the Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange (in 2006).

1 portrait in the collection

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