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Northern exposure

Phil Manning celebrates a century of Brisbane photographic portraiture.

Paper, boy

Peter Wilmoth’s boy-journalist toolkit for antagonising an Australian political giant.

The Saint and the merchant

Emanuel Solomon gave shelter to the Sisters of St Joseph upon the excommunication of St Mary MacKillop.

Pretty in peach

Little treasures

The acquisition of the ivory miniatures of Mortimer and Mrs Lewis.

The existential lens

Stephen Zagala discusses Richard Avedon’s work from an Australian perspective.

Final frame

Karl James reflects on soldier portraiture during the Great War.

The art of peace

Sean Davey captures the portrait of a nation renewed.

Suave

Charles Haddon Chambers the Australian-born playboy playwright settled permanently in London in 1880 but never lost his Australian stance when satirising the English.

Prime number

Diana Warnes discusses the portrait of the Australian mathematician Terence Tao.

Something old, something new

Andrew Mayo considers the changing face of modern wedding photography through the eyes of two of its finest exponents, Dan O’Day and Kelly Tunney.

The house, the horse, the wife and the offspring

Joanna Gilmour writes about the portraiture of the colonial artist William Nicholas.

Vintage Max

Gael Newton delves into the life and art of renowned Australian photographer, Max Dupain.

Fugue in Yellow

Roger Benjamin explores the intriguing union of Lina Bryans and Alex Jelinek.

People are people

Sandra Bruce chats with seven-time NPPP finalist Chris Budgeon about photography, guitars and representing the human story.

Brothers on farms

Malcolm Robertson tells the family history of one of Australia's earliest patrons of the arts, his Scottish born great great great grandfather, William Robertson.