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Lola - Last Summer Days, 2021

Julian Kingma

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023 Finalist

type C photograph on paper (frame: 101.6cm x 124.2cm depth 3.5cm)
Lola - Last Summer Days, 2021

Last Summer Days is almost autobiographical, an exploration of images that address my own fear of time and its passing. It started with hundreds of undeveloped rolls of film of my family; some dating back as far as 2002. Too scared to process them I eventually started the arduous task of unfurling them. What I found were those innocent, seemingly simple times of youth – that magical crease in time where anything seems possible, before cynicism and the weight of the world is felt so acutely. This current work follows Lola, at that precarious transition from adolescence to the melancholic heaviness of adulthood.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023
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Marissa
Gusta
Returning the Gaze
Stanley Lockdown Hair (2022)

Other NPPP photos from Julian Kingma
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Tom at the drain, 2020 Julian Kingma
2021 Highly Commended
Willem, 2018 by Julian Kingma
2019 Finalist
Steven Heathcote
2007 Finalist

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Cathy Freeman, 1998 Julian Kingma
Cathy Freeman, 1998 Julian Kingma
Cathy Freeman, 1998 Julian Kingma
Cathy Freeman, 1998 Julian Kingma

In profile

Julian Kingma

Magazine article by Penelope Grist, 2023

Penelope Grist explores the photographic instinct of four-time National Photographic Portrait Prize finalist Julian Kingma.
Photographer Julian Kingma smiles at the camera
Photographer Julian Kingma smiles at the camera
Photographer Julian Kingma smiles at the camera
Photographer Julian Kingma smiles at the camera

Julian Kingma

'I look for those little, quiet gestures in between'

Portrait story

Photographer Julian Kingma describes his style of quiet portraiture that captures the spaces in between big gestures.
Ruby (left view), 2022 Shea Kirk
Ruby (left view), 2022 Shea Kirk
Ruby (left view), 2022 Shea Kirk
Ruby (left view), 2022 Shea Kirk

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023

Previous exhibition, 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.
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