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National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 Finalist
Robert Gray grew up in Coffs Harbour and was educated in a country town on the north coast of New South Wales. He trained there as a journalist, and since then has worked in Sydney as an editor, advertising copywriter, reviewer and buyer for bookshops. His first book of poems, Creekwater Journal, was published in 1973. Robert has been a writerinresidence at Meiji University in Tokyo and at several universities throughout Australia including Geelong College in 1982. He has won the Adelaide Arts Festival and the New South Wales and Victorian Premiers' Awards for poetry. In 1990 he received the Patrick White Award. He edited books of Selected Poems by Shaw Neilson, and Drawn from Life, the journals of the painter John Olsen. After Images is his latest collection of poetry. In 2008 he published his memoirs, The Land I Came Through Last. Robert was photographed in his Sydney home, as this is where he does most of his work and feels most comfortable. He doesn't really like having his portrait taken.
A series of excepts from Tim Winton's novel 'The Land's Edge'.
Dr Sarah Engledow discusses Quentin Jones's photograph of Australian author Tim Winton.
In its second year at the National Portrait Gallery, and for the first time touring to other venues, the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 continues to present surprising perspectives on the nature of contemporary portrait photography.
