{"id":576514,"date":"2026-08-22T03:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576514\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T03:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:46:09","slug":"australias-national-photographic-portrait-prize-2026-in-pictures-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576514\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s national photographic portrait prize 2026 \u2013 in pictures | Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty finalists were selected from more than 1,000 entries in the 2026 photographic competition which has a $30,000 cash prize for first place. This year\u2019s winner is Nathan Beard\u2019s portrait of his Thai-born aunt Mae Khong, who was recuperating after a debilitating fall. Judges said Beard\u2019s portrait has an \u2018immediate and compelling emotional pull\u2019 and offers an insight into the relationship between the artist and subject. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portrait.gov.au\/exhibitions\/national-photographic-portrait-prize-2026\" data-link-name=\"in standfirst link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The exhibition<\/a> is on now at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thirty finalists were selected from more than 1,000 entries in the 2026 photographic competition which has a $30,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-576514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}