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Stage dive, 2021

Martin Philbey

Living Memory Finalist

Stage dive, 2021

Tex Perkins is typical of the many musicians in Australia – the Covid-19 pandemic has decimated the music and arts industries, with the last year challenging artists to find new methods of connecting with their audiences. This has seen a lot of playing to empty venues; live streaming 'virtual' concerts and festivals; and, when performances were allowed to resume, drastically reduced audience sizes and seated-only venues. Musicians and audiences feed off each other's energy, so this has meant gigs are a very different experience for both.

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Living Memory
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Isaiah Firebrace – reflect, reset, rejuvenate
Drew, Deception Bay, Queensland, 3 March 2020
Forget me not
Mother's Day 2020

Other NPPP photos from Martin Philbey
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Archie Roach, 2019 Martin Philbey
2020 Finalist
Dan Sultan
2012 Finalist
Paul Kelly
2007 Finalist

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Feel the music

Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2010

Dr Christopher Chapman discusses the portrait of Australian composer Paul Grabowsky by photographer Martin Philbey.
Drought story, 2020 Joel B. Pratley
Drought story, 2020 Joel B. Pratley
Drought story, 2020 Joel B. Pratley
Drought story, 2020 Joel B. Pratley

Living Memory

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2021

Previous exhibition, 2021

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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