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Gil Jamieson, 1981

Gift of the artist 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Gil Jamieson, 1980

Gift of the artist 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Trevor Jamieson, 2016

Purchased 2018

Trevor Jamieson, 2016 by Brett Canet-Gibson

John Knatchbull, Murderer of Mrs Ellen Jamieson, 1844

Gift of Leo Schofield AM 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017

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.

Meeting by Murder

The story behind two colonial portraits; a lithograph of captain and convict John Knatchbull and newspaper illustration of Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke.

Fred Hilmer, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by Dr Helen Nugent AO 2018

The Dissecting Room

Joanna Gilmour accounts for Australia’s deliciously ghoulish nineteenth century criminal portraiture. 

Time and light

This sample of 56 photographs takes in some of the smallest photographs we own and some of the largest, some of the earliest and some of the most recent, as well as multiple photographic processes from daguerreotypes to digital media.

The more things change...

Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.