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A magnanimous portrait of Helena Rubinstein has been acquired for the National Portrait Gallery’s collection.

Chair Elizabeth Dibbs, Deputy Chair Hayley Baillie, Tim Bednall, Jillian Broadbent AC, Patrick Corrigan AM, Tim Fairfax AC, Sam Meers AO, John Liangis, Nigel Satterley AM, Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Pakchung.

Mrs Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO has accepted an invitation to become the new Chief Patron of the National Portrait Gallery.

Celebrating sixty years of Australia’s most exceptional women as they appeared in Vogue Australia, the National Portrait Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition in collaboration with this pre-eminent fashion title.

We were in Gaza shooting a documentary and we had heard about the orphanages and wanted to visit and document some of the children who had lost parents during the wars in Gaza.

Dr Christopher Chapman, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2019 Prize.
