National Photographic Portrait Prize

The National Photographic Portrait Prize is an annual portraiture competition held at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia.

The major sponsor of the prize in 2022 is the gallery itself, which awards A$30,000 to the winner, while Canon provides camera equipment worth over A$20,000.

In earlier years VISA was the major sponsor of the prize.

Past winners

 * 2007 — Robert Scott-Mitchell
 * 2009 — Ingvar Kenne
 * 2010 — Scott Bycroft
 * 2011 — Jacqueline Mitelman
 * 2012 — Roderick McNicol
 * 2013 — Janelle Low
 * 2014 — Andrew Cowe
 * 2015 — Hoda Afshar
 * 2016 — Elizabeth Looker
 * 2017 — Gary Grealy
 * 2018 — Lee Grant
 * 2019 — Alana Holmberg
 * 2020 — Rob Palmer
 * 2021 — Joel B. Pratley
 * 2022 — Wayne Quilliam

Highly Commended

 * 2014 — David Apostol
 * 2015 — Katherine Williams
 * 2016 — Sean Davey
 * 2017 — John Benavente; Brett Canet-Gibson
 * 2018 — Filomena Rizzo
 * 2019 — Alex Vaughan
 * 2020 — Hugh Stewart
 * 2021 — Julian Kingma
 * 2022 — Adam Ferguson

People's Choice

 * 2012 — John McRae
 * 2015 — Natalie Grono
 * 2016 — Matthew Newton
 * 2017 — Brett Canet-Gibson
 * 2018 — Harold David
 * 2019 — Kate Atkinson
 * 2020 — Klarissa Dempsey
 * 2022 — Luther Tora

Art Handlers' Prize

 * 2017 — Tobias Titz
 * 2018 — Stephanie Simcox
 * 2019 — Elizabeth Looker
 * 2020 — Shea Kirk
 * 2021 — Kristina Kraskov
 * 2022 — Adam Haddrick

Notable exhibiting finalists

 * Nigel Brennan
 * Jane Burton
 * Rozalind Drummond
 * Alex Frayne
 * Trent Parke
 * Robin Sellick
 * Dean Sewell
 * Alexia Sinclair
 * Mark Tedeschi
 * Mia Wasikowska
 * Greg Weight
 * Anne Zahalka
 * Andrew Rovenko