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The National Portrait Gallery would like to congratulate the forty finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019.
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.
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.
Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.
Christopher Chapman profiles Chris Lilley, actor and creator of Angry Boys.
In its second year at the National Portrait Gallery, and for the first time touring to other venues, the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 continues to present surprising perspectives on the nature of contemporary portrait photography.
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.
Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2018
Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.
Australian photographer Karin Catt has shot across the spectrum of celebrity, her subjects including rock stars, world leaders and actors.
Charting a path from cockatiel to finch, Annette Twyman explores her family portraits and stories.
Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.
An interview with the photographer.
Patrick McCaughey explores a striking Boyd self portrait.
Penny Grist on motivation, method and melancholy in the portraiture of Darren McDonald.
John Zubrzycki meets Australian paint pioneer Jim Cobb.