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Big Draw 2012 photos
14 October 2012
General content
Photos from around the gallery on the day of the Big Draw.
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022
Learning resources
Let’s look closely at the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022 together! For students and family groups.
Little Darlings Youth Portrait Prize
Prizes and awards
The competition is for Australian school students and home-schooled students aged from 5-18 years.
Unplanned arrival leads to blissful adoration
Nearest & Dearest
A mother’s ‘in-loveness’
Visiting with a school group
Visual Stories
Access support for students.
Tony Sowersby
Vox pops
Sabine's the sister-in-law of one of my oldest friends so I've known her for a while.
Children of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2016
Learning resource
Learning resource archive
Senses, movement and imagination in portraits of children from the 2016 Prize. For Year 1 - 3 students.
Atong Atem
Artists and Collectives
Atong Atem is an Ethiopian-born, South Sudanese artist and writer living in Narrm/Melbourne. Her work explores migrant narratives and postcolonial practices in the African diaspora.
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024
Learning resources
Let’s take a look at the National Photographic Portrait Prize for 2024!
A free family festival to celebrate spring and Children’s Week
24 October 2018
Archived media releases 2018
Wake from your winter hibernation to celebrate Children’s Week and Canberra’s spring season at the National Portrait Gallery’s free Spring Festival.
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023
Learning resources
We encourage you to look, to feel, to think, to question and most importantly, to identify and connect.
Simon Harsent
Finalist interviews
I like to think I'm an artist who uses photography as my medium, but I work commercially as a photographer and it's my full time occupation so I guess that defines me as a photographer or maybe a commercial artist?
Last week to vote for your favourite portrait
1 June 2015
Archived media releases 2015
The National Portrait Gallery’s National Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 will close Monday 8 June 2015, this is the last week to visit the exhibition in Canberra and vote for your favourite portrait in the People’s Choice.
Women in Vogue: Celebrating Sixty years in Australia
20 May 2019
Archived media releases 2019
Celebrating sixty years of Australia’s most exceptional women as they appeared in Vogue Australia, the National Portrait Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition in collaboration with this pre-eminent fashion title.
Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits opens
9 November 2017
Archived media releases 2017
Visitors will be left in awe with the National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s (NFSA) new star-studded exhibition, Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits.
Nikhil Chopra
by Rattanamol Johal
Artist essays
Nikhil Chopra was born in 1974, in Calcutta. His first degree was in commerce, but in 1997 he took up fine art studies, eventually gaining a Masters in Fine Art from Ohio State University, United States.