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Bob Hawke, 2010
by David Young
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 Finalist
This portrait of Bob Hawke was taken at the Byron Bay Writers Festival, 2010. It captures something of the resoluteness and intensity of the man that seems not to have diminished with age.