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Yukultji and Yalti with their family, 2019

Ben Mcnamara

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020 Finalist

Yukultji and Yalti with their family, 2019

Yukultji and Yalti are members of a group referred to as ‘the Pintupi Nine’, believed to be the last Indigenous Australians to come into contact with the ‘outside’ world following European settlement. The group was still pursuing a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle, consistent with that lived by their ancestors for tens of thousands of years, when they came to media attention in October 1984. This photograph was taken in Pintupi country on Lake Mackay, a salt lake 100 kilometres long in the middle of the desert on the Western Australia-Northern Territory border.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020
(More information, View all 47 photos)

Holly and Pebbles
Dad, aged 73
Grounded to earth
Untitled

Other NPPP photos from Ben McNamara
(More information)

Marissa, 2022 Ben McNamara
2023 Finalist
We were cold, 2019 Ben Mcnamara
2020 Finalist
Shaun, 2015 by Ben McNamara
2016 Finalist

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National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020

Previous exhibition, 2020

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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