The National Gallery of Australia's Photography Collection comprises over 13,000 Australian and International works. The NGA's Photography Department has links to many other institutions as well as being a national and international resource for loans and research.

Special Collections

• Leo Haks collection

Selected publications

All works are National Gallery of Australia publications unless otherwise stated.For more National Gallery of Australia publications visit the library catalogue online

• Occassional Papers: The New Photography 1920s–1940s (e-publication) Robert Deane, Honorary Researcher, Photography, National Gallery of Australia
• At home in Australia Peter Conrad — featuring 200 works from the Gallery's Australian photography collection
• The spread of time: the photography of David Moore 2003

Previous exhibitions

Australian Photography

• Gifted artists: Donations by Patrick Corrigan AM
• Trent Parke: The Christmas Tree Bucket
• Present History: a selection of photographs of New Zealand 1960s to the present
• Underground: photographs of mining and miners 1850 to the present
• Penguins and Ice: Photographs of Antarctica 1910–2010
• Going to extremes: George Silk, photojournalist
• In search of the native: photographs by Max Dupain and Eduardo Masferré and their contemporaries
• Jump: photographers get off the ground
• Margaret Michaelis: love, loss and photography
• Re-take: contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander photography
• The Europeans: emigré artists in Australia 1930–1960
• The good, the great and the gifted: camera portraits of Yousuf Karsh of Ottawa & Athol Shmith of Melbourne
• The spread of time: the photography of David Moore
• VIP: very important photographs from the European, American and Australian photography collection 1840s – 1940s

European + American Photography

• American street: seventy years of a photographic tradition
• Upstairs downstairs: Photographs of Britain 1874-1990
• Camera work 1903–1917
• Colour & concept: international colour photography
• In a flash: Dr Harold E Edgerton (1903–1990) & split-second photography
• In search of the native: photographs by Max Dupain and Eduardo Masferré and their contemporaries
• Jump: photographers get off the ground
• Monsoon: a photo essay on India by Brian Brake (1927–1988)
• Natural Causes: landscape photographs by Ansel Adams (1902–1984) and Eliot Porter (1901–1990)
• Printed light: photographic vision and the modern print
• Read my lips: Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman
• Revealing the Holy land: the photographic exploration of Palestine
• Surface Beauty: photographic reflections on glass and china
• The Europeans: emigré artists in Australia 1930–1960
• The good, the great and the gifted: camera portraits of Yousuf Karsh of Ottawa & Athol Shmith of Melbourne
• VIP: very important photographs from the European, American and Australian photography collection 1840s – 1940s

Asian Photography

• Finding your place in the world: Asian photomedia
• Picture Paradise Asia–Pacific photography 1840s–1940s

Events and festivals

• NGA photography related events
• A passion for research: Celebrating photography at the Gallery National Gallery of Australia foto freo international festival of photography Fremantle, Western Australia Rencontres d'Arles Arles, France

Sponsors

NGA Photography acknowledges our Major Sponsor Dr Peter Farrell AM through The Farrell Family Foundation & the ongoing support of