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American dream leads to tragic end
Devotion
Young love lost, treasured
Larry Clark
Tough & Tender
General content
Larry Clark's black-and-white documentary images of young outsiders reveal raw feelings.
Treading Water, 2017
by Josh Owen
General content
Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel digital video
The Murdoch
Moustaches
Sport was a potent means by which, in the lead up to Federation, Australians began to assert a sense of themselves as youthful, manly and athletic – the products of an equally young and virile new nation.
Backstage on the way to the top
Passion
Living for the moment
The Hinders: doyens of Australian modernism
Passion
Progressive partnership
To coin a (farewell) phrase
Devotion
A penny for their thoughts
Capital Cool
Stop in all the byways, playin' rock 'n roll
General content
Outsiders tend to give Canberra a bad rap: sterile, plagued by politicians, a comatose capital for professionals and academics. Nick Cave once said he didn’t like the city because there were too many punks.
Shirley Purdie
Contributing artists
Born: 1947, Gilbun – Mabel Downs Station, WA
Works: Warmun, WA
Oz Rock
Gettin’ robbed, gettin’ stoned, gettin’ beat up, broken boned
General content
Two of the music industry’s highest-selling performers originated in suburban Australia. The Bee Gees started out in Brisbane, for instance, and AC/DC played their first gigs at a nightclub in inner Sydney.
Blek Bala MJ, 2017
by Timothy Hillier
General content
Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel HD digital video
Arthur Boyd’s Mysterious Eyes
6 May 2016
Archived media releases 2016
The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled a focus exhibition of captivating portraits by renowned artist Arthur Boyd, titled Mysterious eyes: Arthur Boyd portraits from 1945.
Alex Frayne
NPPP 2012 learning resource
An interview with the photographer.
To Look Away – Tilda, 2015
by Sophie Hyde
General content
Finalist, DPA 2016
Jaq Grantford
Vox pops
A self-portrait from a different time, feels like a different time, even though it's only a couple of years ago or one and a half years, if that, and it was my commentary on COVID and how I was feeling about it at the time.
Cat Leedon
Vox pops
This was taken as part of a series, documenting my, I call it my shit show roller coaster.