Brian Rope Photography

26/08/2026

Links to my review of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2026 by Various Artists at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia:

https://ccc-canberracriticscircle.blogspot.com/2026/08/national-photographic-portrait-prize.html

https://brianropephotography.wordpress.com/2026/08/26/national-photographic-portrait-prize-2026/

National Portrait Gallery

Visual Art Exhibition Review National  Photographic Portrait Prize 2026 | Various Artists National Portrait Gallery | 22 August – 11 October 2026 Warwick Art Gallery | 21 November 2026 – 16 Ja…

26/08/2026

Rediscovered creation from 2017

25/08/2026

Short review of NPPP 2026 on City News website. Longer review will be put on Canberra Critics Circle blog and my own blog in next day or two.

National Portrait Gallery

BRIAN ROPE reviews the 20th and final National Photographic Portrait Prize with the gallery showing works by 30 selected finalists.

21/08/2026

Taken with phone camera at the media preview of the 2026 National Photographic Portrait Prize earlier today.

1. Bree Pickering, Director of NPG, at the lectern. finalist print, On the chair, 2025, by Madeline Bishop on the wall.

2. Nathan Beard with his 2026 NPPP Winning portrait Mae Khong, 2026.

Posted at 10.04 PM, AEST, 21/08/2026, well after the winning image had been publicly announced.

Madeline Bishop National Portrait Gallery

Links to my review of the exhibition will be posted when it has been written and published. 😁

19/08/2026

Around our immediate neighbourhood

19/08/2026

Home is Where the car is parked by the storage unit, Where there's a welcoming light at the apartment door, and Where there's a bus stop right outside.

Charing Cross Photo

16/08/2026

Art Studio Under The Travelator

16/08/2026

As well as posting articles on my own blog https://brianropephotography.wordpress.com/

I'm now also posting some of the articles on https://brianropephotography.substack.com/p/reading-frames

Explorations in what makes a photograph work

14/08/2026

Links to my review of the book Reading Frames: explorations in what makes a photograph work by W. Scott Olsen

Lyndall Gerlach

https://ccc-canberracriticscircle.blogspot.com/2026/08/reading-frames-explorations-in-what.html

https://brianropephotography.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/reading-frames-explorations-in-what-makes-a-photograph-work/

Book Review Reading Frames: explorations in what makes a photograph work | W. Scott Olsen The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City ©2026. All rights reserved. Copyright for photographs remains …