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 to the winner, while Canon provides camera equipment worth over .
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 2023 — Shea Kirk 2024 — Amos Gebhardt 2025 — Hoda Afshar, for "Untitled #01 (from the series Code Black/Riot)" 2026 — Nathan Beard
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 2023 — Renae Saxby
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 2023 — Bruce Agnew 2025 — Em Jensen
Art Handlers' Award 2017 — Tobias Titz 2018 — Stephanie Simcox 2019 — Elizabeth Looker 2020 — Shea Kirk 2021 — Kristina Kraskov 2022 — Adam Haddrick 2023 — David Cossini 2025 — George Fetting 2026 — Hussein Abdirahman Mohamud
First Time Finalist Award 2025 — Sherry Quiambao 2026 — Phuong Nguyen Le
Notable exhibiting finalists
Nigel Brennan Jane Burton Rozalind Drummond Alex Frayne Trent Parke James J. Robinson Andrew Rovenko Robin Sellick Dean Sewell Alexia Sinclair Mark Tedeschi Mia Wasikowska Greg Weight Anne Zahalka
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