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White Drummer Ghost Class

by Tina Havelock Stevens

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Finalist, MDPA 2015

Charlie Ford

Charlie Ford

I had my medium format camera to take like a nice portrait of the family and just happened to see Helen in this really natural pose, shutting the gate to keep the dog away from the spit.

Sir George Grey

Nothing black and white about the Greys

It's Complicated

Marriage: a prolonged disaster

Patrick White and Manoly Lascaris

A life shared

Wartime romance

Patrick White #1

Top of their game

Nobel Laureates

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Macfarlane Burnet and Patrick White

Billy Mann 1963 by Larry Clark

Larry Clark

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Larry Clark's black-and-white documentary images of young outsiders reveal raw feelings.

Ayman Kaake

Ayman Kaake

This photo is a self portrait. So this is me. So you can see the eye resemblance. So, and this photo is inspired by my friends, my workplace.

Charlie, 2017 by Lee Grant

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018 winner announced

Archived media releases 2018

Finalists have been eagerly awaiting the announcement of the Winner and Highly Commended for the National Photographic Portrait Prize since December. It is our pleasure to announce the Winner for 2018 is Lee Grant for her portrait titled Charlie and Highly Commended has been awarded to Filomena Rizzo for her portrait titled My Olivia.

Maykarran, 2017 by Gutiŋarra Yunupiŋu, video: 1 minute

Maykarran, 2017

by Gutiŋarra Yunupiŋu

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Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel HD digital video using projection

Gravity, 2009 by Alwar Balasubramaniam

Alwar Balasubramaniam

by Zehra Jumabhoy

Born in 1971 in Tamil Nadu, Southern India, Alwar Balasubramaniam's sculptures, prints and installations challenge our perceptions while creating forms for the invisible and the intangible.

Sean Slattery

Sean Slattery

This is Davide Di Giovanni and he was a principal dancer for the Sydney Dance Company for six or seven years. He got in touch with me to do some video work together and he was just so amazing.

The Parkes

The Parkes

It wasn’t uncommon for the pro-beard fraternity of the mid nineteenth century to cite beards as a sign of wisdom on the grounds that Socrates and other ancient philosophers had worn them.

Ruby (left view), 2022 Shea Kirk

The 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize

Shea Kirk’s portrait of friend and fellow-artist Emma Armstrong-Porter has won the 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Heidi Margocsy

Heidi Margocsy

Perrin is an amazing amazing woman, and what I wanted to do with this particular sitting was create something raw and stripped back.

McCaughey Street, Turner, 1959, 2012 by Heather Corrigan

Heather Corrigan

Finalist interviews

The lovely faces in my photograph are that of my best friends. Some I have only known for a couple of months, others for most of my life. For me, recreating a family portrait with individuals I love was supremely important. I was reconstructing a photo of people I cherish with people I adore.

Born 1989 in Beijing (250%), 1995–96 by Liu Wei

Liu Wei

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Born 1965 in Beijing. Lives and works in Beijing.

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