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Dame Jean Macnamara

Learn about the Australian doctor and scientist who dedicated her life to the research and treatment of poliomyelitis. For Year 5 – 7 students.

Blek Bala MJ, 2017

Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel HD digital video

Body Emulsion Detachment, 2016

Finalist, DPA 2016

This airport’s gone to the dogs

Right-hound man

Joey Chan

Feeling a bit emotional. Took this portrait and it was the last photo I took of her.

Our only concern is the void, 2013

Winner, MDPA 2013

American dream leads to tragic end

Young love lost, treasured

Troppo Architects

The studios of Troppo Architects are located away from Australia’s major urban centres.

Alienation

Segregated from their fellow humans in cellophane prisons, reference points are removed, so it is not certain whether these naked figures could be unwrapped, are about to be subsumed, or will forever be suspended in a plastic stasis.

Myles Nelson

It was definitely a candid encounter as was the expression on the face. It was constructed insofar as the image was deliberately taken from a distance so as to minimize intrusion and to magnify the effect of the image.

Nicola Dickson

Born: 1959, Southport, QLD
Works: Canberra

The National Photographic Portrait Prize: 2021 Living Memory

Director Karen Quinlan AM announces significant changes for 2021, including a larger, longer exhibition, themed to reflect our experience of events that have occurred in this historic year.

Tejal Shah

Born in 1979, Tejal Shah grew up in Chhattisgarh, central India, moving to Bombay in 1995.

Portrait Donors

NPPP 2016 exhibition essay

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

Alwin Reamillo

Alwin Reamillo was born in Manila, Philippines in 1964. He studied painting at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, and began his career as a visual art teacher at the Philippine High School for the Arts.