Mosman Art Gallery is pleased to present the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 which is currently on tour from the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.

The exhibition features the work of forty-three finalists whose photographs reflect the distinctive vision of Australia’s aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.

The exhibition includes well known identities such as Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, Paul Capsis and Brandon Walters as well as many other unidentified and intriguing models chosen by the photographers.

• Video: National Portrait Gallery comes to Mosman – Emma Mahanay talks to Julie Petersen about the prize and some of her favourite works

• National Portrait Gallery learning resource – includes interviews with the artists, comments from the Prize’s judge and curator, and more.

Visitors to the Mosman Art Gallery will have the opportunity to hear from other selected photographers in a series of illustrated Sunday talks. The photographers’ subjects range from the familiar such as actor Paul Capsis, Gap hero Don Ritchie and arts duo Brian and Gene Sherman to the more anonymous subjects of young musicians, Newcastle squatters, sunbakers and friends.