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Kristina, 1984 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Kristina, 1986 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

I'm just a suburban fashionista

Kristina Kraskov

An interview with Kristina Kraskov, Finalist and Art Handlers' Award winner in the Living Memory National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Beauty and strength

Influential Indigenous Australian artist Michael Riley (1960 - 2004) created these portrait photographs between 1984 and 1990 - they stand as an intricately connected group portrait of the vibrant urban-based Indigenous arts community in Sydney's inner-west at a formative moment.

Art Handlers' Award 2021

The Art Handlers' Award for 2021 went to Kristina Kraskov for I'm just a suburban fashionista.

Avril and Miya, 1990 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Living Memory

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.

Sophisticated and glamorous

Michael Riley’s early portraits by Amanda Rowell.

Living Memory – National Photographic Portrait Prize extended to January 2022

In light of recent and ongoing gallery closures brought on by the COVID pandemic, the NPG’s 2021 National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition season will be extended until 16 January next year.

Time and light

This sample of 56 photographs takes in some of the smallest photographs we own and some of the largest, some of the earliest and some of the most recent, as well as multiple photographic processes from daguerreotypes to digital media.