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Spencer 2016, by Warwick Baker

Spencer 2016, by Warwick Baker

Spencer 2016
by Warwick Baker
archival pigment print from digitised film negative
Courtesy of the artist

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Hugh 2015, by Warwick Baker
Hugh 2015, by Warwick Baker
Hugh 2015, by Warwick Baker
Hugh 2015, by Warwick Baker

Friends

About Face article

10 October 2016

Warwick Baker’s photos of his friends are intimate. They hold a stillness that allows their subjects to be at ease.
Vy (Cowsill) 2016 by Rozalind Drummond
Vy (Cowsill) 2016 by Rozalind Drummond
Vy (Cowsill) 2016 by Rozalind Drummond
Vy (Cowsill) 2016 by Rozalind Drummond

Joyful sadness

About Face article

1 October 2016

Rozalind Drummond’s photographs in the exhibition Tough and tender let us bring our imagination to the act of looking.
Miles and Arkie, 2015 by Clint Peloso
Miles and Arkie, 2015 by Clint Peloso
Miles and Arkie, 2015 by Clint Peloso
Miles and Arkie, 2015 by Clint Peloso

Shop Talk

Magazine article by Stephen Phillips, 2016

Angus and the arbiters talk (photo) shop for the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
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