THE National Portrait Gallery has just announced that the People’s Choice award for this year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize goes to Melanie Faith Dove for her portrait, “Face of South Sudan,” 2012. This is the second People’s Choice award and it reinforces the democratic credentials of the prize with over 3,500 visitors to the exhibition voting for their favourite portrait.
Melanie Faith Dove
This year’s judges, Louise Doyle, director of the Gallery, Joanna Gilmour, Curator, National Portrait Gallery and invited guest judge, Martyn Jolly, had previously awarded the $25,000 cash prize to Janelle Low for her portrait, “Yhonnie and Indiana” 2012. The full list of finalists is available at portrait.gov.au/site/nppp.php
Upon hearing of the award, Faith Dove said “Being voted People’s Choice winner is extremely exciting. To be chosen by the hearts and gut responses of the public means I have communicated effectively and touched the viewer. To me that is the definition of success”.
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