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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

James, Rebecca and Sam Mapu

Time and light

In Gallery Seven
Previous exhibition, 2023

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.

Brett Canét-Gibson & Heath Bergersen

Brett Canét-Gibson & Heath Bergersen

'My influence is around 1850'
Portrait story

Brett Canét-Gibson on making a portrait with Heath Bergersen.

Silent Strength, 2021 Wayne Quilliam

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022

Previous exhibition, 2022

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.

Heath
Heath
Heath

Heath, 2020 (printed 2022)

Brett Canét-Gibson
Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Purchased 2022

Unmasked - Bob Gordon, 2022 Brett Canét-Gibson

Unmasked - Bob Gordon

Brett Canét-Gibson
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Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe
Ian Thorpe

Ian Thorpe, 1998 (printed 2019)

Brett Canét-Gibson
Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Purchased 2019

The Life of Riley, 2014 by Brett Canet-Gibson

Observation Point

Magazine article by Brett Canét-Gibson, 2018

Portrait photography, by definition, is a collaboration. It is also the grandest of lies masquerading as the ultimate truth.

Charlie, 2017 by Lee Grant

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018

Previous exhibition, 2018

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.

Trevor Jamieson
Trevor Jamieson
Trevor Jamieson

Trevor Jamieson, 2016

Brett Canét-Gibson
Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Purchased 2018

Jessica, 2014 by Brett Canet-Gibson

Jessica, 2014

by Brett Canet-Gibson
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Tiffany, 2015 by Brett Canet-Gibson

Tiffany, 2015

by Brett Canet-Gibson
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Trevor Jamieson, 2016 by Brett Canet-Gibson

Trevor Jamieson, 2016 by Brett Canet-Gibson

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Mastura, 2016 by Brett Canet-Gibson

Mastura, 2016

by Brett Canet-Gibson
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Bodie, 2017 by Brett Canet-Gibson

Bodie, 2017

by Brett Canet-Gibson
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