The National Photographic Portrait Prize is an annual

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ure competition held at the

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, Australia. The major sponsor of the prize in 2022 is the gallery itself, which awards to the winner, while

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provides camera equipment worth over . In earlier years

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was the major sponsor of the prize.

Past winners

*2007 — Robert Scott-Mitchell *2009 — Ingvar Kenne *2010 — Scott Bycroft *2011 —

Jacqueline Mitelman Jacqueline Mitelman is an Australian portrait photographer. Early life and education Jacqueline Mitelman was born Jacqueline MacGreggor in Scotland in 1948, and has since lived in Melbourne and in France for a few years. She was briefly marri ...

*2012 — Roderick McNicol *2013 — Janelle Low *2014 — Andrew Cowe *2015 —

Hoda Afshar Hoda Afshar (born 1983) is an Iranian documentary photographer who is based in Melbourne. She is known for her 2018 prize-winning portrait of Kurdish-Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani, who suffered a long imprisonment in the Manus Island detentio ...

*2016 — Elizabeth Looker *2017 — Gary Grealy *2018 — Lee Grant *2019 — Alana Holmberg *2020 — Rob Palmer *2021 — Joel B. Pratley *2022 — Wayne Quilliam

Highly Commended

*2014 — David Apostol *2015 — Katherine Williams *2016 — Sean Davey *2017 — John Benavente; Brett Canet-Gibson *2018 — Filomena Rizzo *2019 — Alex Vaughan *2020 — Hugh Stewart *2021 — Julian Kingma *2022 — Adam Ferguson

People's Choice

*2012 — John McRae *2015 — Natalie Grono *2016 — Matthew Newton *2017 — Brett Canet-Gibson *2018 — Harold David *2019 — Kate Atkinson *2020 — Klarissa Dempsey *2022 — Luther Tora

Art Handlers' Prize

* 2017 — Tobias Titz * 2018 — Stephanie Simcox *2019 — Elizabeth Looker *2020 — Shea Kirk *2021 — Kristina Kraskov *2022 — Adam Haddrick

Notable exhibiting finalists

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* Jane Burton *

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References

{{Reflist Australian art awards Portrait art Photography in Australia Awards established in 2007 2007 establishments in Australia