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Rod McNicol and Jack Charles
'We're village elders on Smith Street'
Portrait story
Rod and Jack on the series of portraits they created together.
Barry Jones AC
Rod McNicol
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Rod McNicol
'Life and Times'
Portrait story
Echoing 19th-century photography, Rod McNicol's portraits give us a chance to look quietly at the human condition.
Life and time
Portraits by Rod McNicol
Previous exhibition, 2015
Australian photographer Rod McNicol has consistently analysed the passing of time through the evidence of the photographic portrait. At once confronting and tender, McNicol’s portrait photographs are bold and intimate.
Village people
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2015
Christopher Chapman discusses Rod McNicol's photographic portrait series Newcomers to my village.
Jack Charles, 2011
Rod McNicol
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2013
'Red Terra' - Black Activist: A portrait of Gary Foley, 2006
by Rod McNicol
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Gurkirat, 2009
by Rod McNicol
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National Photographic Portrait Prize 2012
Previous exhibition, 2012
The National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition is selected from a national field of entries that reflect the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.
Self-portrait, 2015
by Rod McNicol
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My friend Siu’s dear mother, Mrs Chan, 2014
by Rod McNicol
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Tracey, 2018
by Rod McNicol
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