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Learn about the Australian doctor and scientist who dedicated her life to the research and treatment of poliomyelitis. For Year 5 – 7 students.
Blek Bala MJ, 2017
by Timothy Hillier
General content
Finalist, DPA 2017
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Myles Nelson
Finalist interviews
It was definitely a candid encounter as was the expression on the face. It was constructed insofar as the image was deliberately taken from a distance so as to minimize intrusion and to magnify the effect of the image.
Our only concern is the void, 2013
by Nik Lee
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Winner, MDPA 2013
Elvis at 21 media information
25 October 2013
Archived media releases 2013
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Alienation
More about In the flesh
Segregated from their fellow humans in cellophane prisons, reference points are removed, so it is not certain whether these naked figures could be unwrapped, are about to be subsumed, or will forever be suspended in a plastic stasis.
Arianne McNaught
NPPP 2012 learning resource
An interview with the photographer.
Arianne McNaught
Finalist interviews
I think the most important thing in capturing candid shots is to never take the photo when people are expecting you to press the shutter. The more poignant moments are not the stock standard images of people looking at the camera smiling but after or before when they are really interacting with each other.
Nicola Dickson
Contributing artists
Born: 1959, Southport, QLD
Works: Canberra
Sharon Zwi
Finalist interviews
We were in Gaza shooting a documentary and we had heard about the orphanages and wanted to visit and document some of the children who had lost parents during the wars in Gaza.
NPPP 2016 exhibition essay
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Penny Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2016 Prize.
Louise Whelan
Finalist interviews
I met Kaloti Parmjit the day I took the photo. I first visited the Sikh temple in the suburb of Glenwood to take photos as part of a social documentary project I'm undertaking for the State Library of NSW.
Tejal Shah
by Gitanjali Dang
Artist essays
Born in 1979, Tejal Shah grew up in Chhattisgarh, central India, moving to Bombay in 1995.
Ken Done
Explore The Popular Pet Show
With a mum who was married to a tradie, you’d think it a fair chance that the baby Jesus would have grown up with a dog in the house.
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