Forty-three photographers have had their work selected for the exhibition highlighting the entrants to the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010. The annual event held at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra will run from 4 March – 2 May 2010.

Advertising photography specialist Chris Budgeon from Victoria will feature at the event. His work has appeared in commercial shoots for HBA Health Insurance, Energy Australia, Carlton Draught’s “Because You’re Worth It” series, Cougar Dark Rum, Shell, Schweppes and Bendon Sport.

(c) Chris Budgeon

(c) Chris Budgeon

Robin Sellick is a celebrity photographer who is already exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery and will be exhibited again this year at the pending exhibition. Sellick has shot music, TV, sport, business and political personalities in Australia for the past 10 years. Some of his more well known work includes images of Rove McManus vaulting into a pool and sexy images of Cate Blanchett (see below)…

The National Portrait Gallery will showcase the winners of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 from 4 March – 2 May 2010 in Canberra. The annual event promotes contemporary photographic portraiture and the Gallery offers $25,000 for the most outstanding entry.

The exhibition will tour to Victoria and New South Wales to the following galleries:
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery      12 May – 27 June
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery                         27 August – 10 October
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery                               5 November – 16 January 2011
Mosman Art Gallery                                          5 February 2011 – 20 March 2011

Some of the photographs currently in the National Portrait Gallery include these icons of Australian television and cinema.

Image of Bert Newton by Robin Sellick, one of the 43 photographers to be featured in the pending exhibition.

Image of Baz Luhrmann by Ingvar Kenne

Roslyn Oxey9 Gallery in Paddington.

The police responded to a number of complaints made to their office, which expressed concern about a certain photo, wherein a 13-year-old girl was photographed naked—budding breasts showing and one hand covering her private part.

The seizure of Bill’s photographs elicited very strong reactions from two different camps: the ones who claim to protect art from “censorship,” and the ones who tried to bring attention to graver concerns, like a parent’s responsibility to the child, and the protection of children from this kind of abuse.

Hetty Johnson, from the group Bravehearts (an organization that advocates for victims of child sexual abuse), was among those…