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Lowitja O'Donoghue

Awesome Achievers

A cross-curriculum learning resource

Learning resource archive

What makes someone awesome? And how does a portrait tell a person's story? Bring your students up close and personal with some great Australians. For upper primary school students.

Renato Colangelo

Renato Colangelo

My process uses long exposures with analog cameras. This is shot on a medium format camera and I use a type of filter system on the back of the camera to create the juxtaposition of the frame that you see, and the cross in the middle.

Vipoo Srivilasa smiling while making a

Vipoo Srivilasa

Artists and Collectives

Vipoo Srivilasa is a Thai-born, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist, ceramicist and arts activist often exploring cross-cultural and migration experiences.

Christopher Bassi standing in an empty office next to a large yellow painting

Christopher Bassi

Artists and Collectives

Known for his representational painting, Meriam and Yupungathi man Christopher Bassi, based in Meanjin/Brisbane, addresses issues surrounding cultural identity, alternative genealogies and colonial legacies.

Sean Slattery

Sean Slattery

This is Davide Di Giovanni and he was a principal dancer for the Sydney Dance Company for six or seven years. He got in touch with me to do some video work together and he was just so amazing.

The Huxleys, 2018 Sally Ross

Happiness is... extreme and unapologetic

A glamorous, glorious visual assault

Eugene Goossens

Wanted: social opposites for like-minded kink

It's Complicated

‘Scandalous conduct’

More about the National Photographic Portrait Prize

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Comments from our judges and information about entering the 2017 Prize.

Latai Taumoepeau holding a blanket to her body while standing on the platform at a train station

Latai Taumoepeau

Artists and Collectives

Latai Taumoepeau, based on Gadigal Country, makes live-art-work drawing her faivā (temporal practice) from her homelands, the Island Kingdom of Tonga, centres Tongan philosophies to make visible the impact of climate crisis in the Pacific.

Ian Kiernan

Cut and thrust

Environmental activists

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Harry Butler, Tim Flannery and Ian Kiernan

The Go-Betweens, London, c.1986 Warwick Orme

Oz Indie

Under the Milky Way tonight

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It was the era of recording your favourite songs directly from the radio; of seeing the latest acts and clips on Countdown; and when the Aussie bands you saw on TV and heard in the charts were the ones you could see live at the pub.

Michelle Simmons

Three ways to look at a photograph

NPPP 2019 exhibition essay

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Dr Christopher Chapman, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2019 Prize.

Bern Emmerichs video: 4 minutes

Bern Emmerichs

Contributing artists

Born: 1961, Melbourne
Works: Melbourne

Valerie Kirk

Contributing artists

Born: 1957, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Works: Canberra

Dr Claire Roberts

References

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About the exhibition curator Claire Roberts, and writers Eugene Wang and Zhang Letian.

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About Headspace

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Both making and exploring art involve a form of thinking that opens the way to multiple systems of knowing and experiencing.

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