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Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.
Commissioned with funds provided by Jillian Broadbent AO and Dr Helen Nugent AO 2018.
We were in Gaza shooting a documentary and we had heard about the orphanages and wanted to visit and document some of the children who had lost parents during the wars in Gaza.
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
I agonized over the choice of four songs to take with me to the ABC Studios for Alex Sloan’s Canberra 666 afternoon program, a sort of iteration of the old BBC Desert Island Discs.
Natural light and human proportions – the design by Johnson Pilton Walker
National Photographic Portrait Prize judge Christopher Chapman connects this year’s entries to iconic contemporary american photographers.
Dr Christopher Chapman, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2015 Prize.
Artist David M Thomas lists some of the ideas and influences behind his video portraits.
Australian photographer Karin Catt has shot across the spectrum of celebrity, her subjects including rock stars, world leaders and actors.
Lecture by Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London, given at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra on 28 April 2006.
Dr Christopher Chapman describes the experimental exhibition Portraits + Architecture
How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.
Magda Keaney speaks with Lewis Morley about his photographic career and the major retrospective of his work on display at the NPG.
Penelope Grist speaks to Bill Henson and Simone Young to discover the origins of the artist’s stunning photographic triptych.
Joanna Gilmour on Tom Durkin playing with Melbourne's manhood.