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National Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 Finalist
The Scholars is a series of portraits of young scholarship winners taken over the Australian summer of 2009-2010 in Canberra. Realised as tintypes, a 19th century dry plate photographic process, this series is a record of a particular time and place, of future scientists, mathematicians, sociologists and artists thrown together by circumstance in the second decade of the 21st century. Photography is a child of science, it informs our way of seeing and being, revealing previously unknown, small truths that add to the world and lead our way through it. This is a portrait of Robert Wilson.
The NPPP exhibition is selected from a national field of entries. The annual exhibition, now in its fourth year, reflects the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.
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