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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.
Joanna Gilmour reflects on merging collections and challenging traditional assumptions around portraiture in WHO ARE YOU.
Purchased 2022
Purchased 2022
Purchased with funds provided by Tim Bednall 2021
Purchased 2020
Gift of HOTA (Home of the Arts), Gold Coast 2019 with the encouragement of Patrick Corrigan AM
Penelope Grist speaks to Robert McFarlane about shooting for the stars.
Michael Riley’s early portraits by Amanda Rowell.
Purchased 1999
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.
Purchased 2013
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
Michael Desmond discusses the portrait of Senator Neville Bonner by Robert Campbell Jnr.
Purchased 2006