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School portraits

Inga Walton sheds light on a portraiture collection usually only seen by students and teachers at Melbourne University.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023

The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.

2023 Annual Appeal

In 2023 the Annual Appeal was focussed on a work by one of Australia's best loved and most successful portrait painters, Judy Cassab AO CBE, depicting model, entrepreneur and deportment icon, June Dally-Watkins OAM.

Some women you may not know

‘Everybody’s lives are built by so many influences, and for me, it is writers, artists and activists who have influenced how I think about the world.’

The Bamugura

A portrait of the artist by the artist

Rowan McGinness asks: when is a self portrait not a self portrait?

Icons Syndicate

Facing the feeling

Penelope Grist explores the interplay between medicine and portraiture in Vic McEwan’s Face to Face: The New Normal.

2022 Annual Appeal

In 2022 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Mayatjara by Robert Fielding, a series of 24 photographs of Elders of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara community.

Warwick Thornton, 2019 (printed 2022)

Gift of the artist 2022

Susan Norrie, 1994

Gift of the artist 2021

Artists in residence – Carlos, Jono and Lazy Susan

Anna May Wong

Harry Belafonte

Annual Appeal

To arrive at hope

Penelope Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2020 Prize.