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Shea Kirk

Shea Kirk

I see everyone as being really special, amazing people and it is such a privilege to have the opportunity to work so closely and develop that relationship of trust and openness.

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.

Sammaneh Pourshafighi

Sammaneh Pourshafighi

This is a photograph of my mom. I'm really interested in ideas of representation, coming from my background, which is a migrant and Iranian and a female perspective.

Rohan Thomson

Rohan Thomson

Mrs. Norris is an artist, and she's an elder of her community. She paints these incredible, huge paintings that she sits on and dabs for hours and hours and hours.

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.

Renae Saxby

Renae Saxby

This is Cindy Rostron. Her father Victor Rostron's art is on the roof, and we're out around Bulman, in Central Arnhem Land.

Lily Hatten

Lily Hatten

My daughter was struggling a lot with Impetigo and the isolation that we were experiencing. We'd been stuck in the house together for a few weeks.

Jacob Nash

Jacob Nash

This is Gusta. He's a dancer. He was backstage with Bangara Dance Theatre when I took the shot, and I had a moment where it was just he and I alone and everyone else was out performing.

Heidi Margocsy

Heidi Margocsy

Perrin is an amazing amazing woman, and what I wanted to do with this particular sitting was create something raw and stripped back.

Forough Yavari

Forough Yavari

This work is Serenity, it's actually it's part of a series, Salvation that I've been working the past couple of years. And for this project I'm inspired by Langston Hughes.

David Cossini

David Cossini

Godfrey's amazing man. I've known him for four years now. He has a very tough story.

Cindy Kavanagh

Cindy Kavanagh

The portrait, the priestess, is of a friend, Floria, and it's part of a project I've been working on for two years, which is 50 at 50.

Charlie Ford

Charlie Ford

I had my medium format camera to take like a nice portrait of the family and just happened to see Helen in this really natural pose, shutting the gate to keep the dog away from the spit.

Ben McNamara

Ben McNamara

This is Marissa Gallagher from Kintore, which if you're in Alice Springs, just go west until the WA border, just before that, a traditional area of Pintupi mob.

Shea Kirk

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Seventeen finalists with their portraits on the opening night of the exhibition.

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