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Sonia Nair looks at Anu Kumar, whose portraiture practice preserves the intimate, in-between moments of her hometown in India.
Sonia McMahon (1932-2010) née Hopkins, was the wife of William McMahon, Australian prime minister in 1971-1972.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of an anonymous donor 2014
Esther Erlich’s portrait of Lady McMahon.
This issue features Abdul Abdullah, Sam Leach, Sonia McMahon, Rod McNicol, The National Photographic Portrait Prize and more.
Thom Roberts reveals the stories behind some of his portraits, Rebecca Harkins-Cross on Carol Jerrems, and Daniel Browning reflects on Tracey Moffatt’s 1986 series Some lads.
Esther Erlich (b. 1955), a Melbourne-based painter, has been exhibiting since the early 1980s, often with the Libby Edwards Galleries in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and the Barry Newton Gallery in Adelaide.
3 portraits in the collection
Dominique Issermann (b. 1946), a fashion, advertising and portrait photographer known for her striking black and white images, was born in Paris and became interested in photography as a teenager.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of the artist 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Robert ‘Bob’ Jenyns (1944-2015) grew up in Victoria and gained his diploma in art from the Caulfield Institute of Technology in 1964.
1 portrait in the collection
Born in 1979, Tejal Shah grew up in Chhattisgarh, central India, moving to Bombay in 1995.
Atul Bhalla was born in 1964 in New Delhi. He frequently combines photography, installation, sculpture, video, painting and performance to question the human relationship with the natural and constructed environment.
Dr Anne Sanders NPG Curatorial Researcher investigated the lives of the pioneering psychologists whose portraits are featured in Inner Worlds.
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2014 Prize.