THIS year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize presents an interesting range of images even if, as usual, the artists’ statements are sometimes rather annoying.

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Suzi Alesandra is the subject of the winning entry in this year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize.

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Copyright 2010 :: Open photo contests and competitions

Prizes:

• 3 x Canon 5DII Professional digital SLR
• 3 x Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens
• 3x Canon Pixma Pro9500 professional A3+ printer
• 3 x Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
• Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Master Collection
• Adobe Photoshop Extended
• 3 x ACDSee Pro 3
• 5 x Sandisk 16gb Extreme Pro CF Memory Cards
• 3 x Lowepro camera bag
• 2 x Lowepro camera bag
• 5 x Books from Focal Press
• 2 x Epson Stylus Pro 4900
• 5 x Nik Software Complete Colection PS
• 35 x Nik Software DFine

Head On finalists will be exhibited at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney 5 May – 11 June 2011. Images can range from film to digitally produced using any photographic technique in colour and/or black & White. You may submit up to three images.

How to enter this portrait photo competition

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Closes on 23 Apr 2010
The Australian Academy of Design Photographic Portrait Prize is an annual competition. The Australian Academy of Design invites entries from photographers in the following categories:

• Category A: Tertiary students (inc. TAFE students)
• Category B: Years 10-12 secondary school students

Awards for this year in each Category A and B are:

• First Place: $700 Michaels/Canon Voucher
• Second Place: $200 Michaels Hire Voucher (redeemable for equipment hire)
• Third Place: $100 Michaels Camera Store Print Voucher (redeemable for professional
• printing and processing services)

Venue: Australian Academy of Design Gallery, 220 Ingles Street, Port Melbourne, Melbourne.

Contact: For more information call 03 9676 9000 or email info@designacademy.edu.au

Mr Andrew Sayers, Director, National Portrait Gallery yesterday announced the winner of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 as Scott Bycroft for the work titled Zareth.
VISA has generously sponsored the exhibition and will provide the winning prize money of $25 000.
The winning work is featured in an exhibition of forty-three portraits bythe finalists in the Prize which will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery until 2 May 2010. The exhibition will then tour nationally.
Scott Bycroft (born 1972) is a white High School art teacher at the Clontarf Aboriginal College in Perth, WA, and Zareth Long was one of his pupils. He has been experimenting with photography since 2007 and is self taught. On winning the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010, Scott Bycroft said: “I would like to sincerely thank the National Portrait Gallery for hosting the exhibition and promoting photography in Australia. I would like to thank also, the judges for their support and recognition of this image, and lastly, VISA, for their support and promotion of this event, which has no doubt raises its profile, and helped attract a healthy number of entrants. I regret that I cannot be there to accept the award in person”.
Members of the judging panel were: Dr Christopher Chapman, Curator, National Portrait Gallery; Joanna Gilmour, Assistant Curator, National Portrait Gallery and invited guest judge Ms Kim Machan, Director, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific.
Dr Chapman commented:“Bycroft’s work was selected for its immediacy and power, its distinctiveness as a portrait, and for its direct presence. The subject, Zareth Long, projects an uncompromising gaze, drawing us physically closer, to then explore the razor-sharp
photographic depiction. Every detail is so clear and finely realised, creating an unquestionably compelling portrait that is a strong and positive representation of youth”,

After the National Portrait Gallery, the exhibition will tour to: Mornington Peninsula
Regional Gallery 12 May – 27 June 2010; Bathurst Regional Gallery 27 August – 10
October 2010; Wagga Regional Gallery 5 November 2010 – 16 January 2011; Mosman
Art Gallery 5 February – 20 March 2011

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Closes on 01 Nov 2009

Photography is the most pervasive and popular medium for portraiture and makes a natural fit with the Gallery, being a natural extension of the Gallery’s long standing commitment to photography as a contemporary portrait medium.

The National Portrait Gallery is offering a prize of $25,000 for the most outstanding photographic portrait.

Contact Details: For more information call 02 6102 7000 or email Jeanie.Hancocks@npg.gov.au

Venue: National Portrait Gallery, King Edward Terrace, Parkes, Canberra.