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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.

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Sayeh: from the series Iranians, 2011 by Aletheia Casey

Sayeh: from the series Iranians, 2011

by Aletheia Casey

Portrait of a Girl Eating, 2006 by Leyla Stevens

Portrait of a Girl Eating, 2006

by Leyla Stevens

Billy Mann 1963 by Larry Clark

Larry Clark

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Larry Clark's black-and-white documentary images of young outsiders reveal raw feelings.

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John Witzig

John Witzig, photographer, writer and designer, contributed his first piece to Surfing World in 1963.

5 portraits in the collection

Treading Water, 2017 by Josh Owen, video: 5 minutes

Treading Water, 2017

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Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel digital video

Noah Taylor

Noah Taylor

Noah Taylor (b. 1969) left school at 16 to join Melbourne's St Martin's Youth Theatre.

1 portrait in the collection

© Shirley Purdie/Copyright Agency, 2020

Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngagenybe

Previous exhibition, 2020

Using ochres collected on her country in Western Australia’s East Kimberley, Shirley Purdie’s self-portrait is a kaleidoscope of traditional Gija stories and Ngarranggarni (Dreaming) passed down to her.

Bill Henson

'Scale and presence'

Photographer Bill Henson describes creating his three part portrait of Simone Young.

Lleyton Hewitt

Lleyton Hewitt

Lleyton Hewitt

Lleyton Hewitt, 1998

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Gift of the artist 2004

The Murdoch

The Murdoch

Sport was a potent means by which, in the lead up to Federation, Australians began to assert a sense of themselves as youthful, manly and athletic – the products of an equally young and virile new nation.

John Marsden

John Marsden

John Marsden (b. 1950), children's writer and social commentator, grew up in country Victoria and Tasmania and then attended the Kings School in Parramatta.

1 portrait in the collection

Sir William Charles Windeyer

Sir William Windeyer

Sir William Windeyer (1834-1897) was a politician and judge. One of the first undergraduates to study at the University of Sydney, he developed a particular interest in education and the rights of women - he was responsible for the Married Women's Property Act of 1879, and was Founding Chairman of the university's Women's College.

4 portraits in the collection

Tarcissius, 2006 by Heide Smith

Tarcissius, 2006

Portrait 58

Paul Cézanne, Bill Henson and Simone Young, Australian cinema’s iconic women, and feminist portraits by Kate Just.

Bon Scott & Angus Young, Atlanta, Georgia

Backstage on the way to the top

Living for the moment

Amanda, 2017 by Bill Gekas

Amanda, 2017

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