"In a parliamentary week that has so far involved a pitched battle over how many pages the Uluru Statement is, a bold Coalition stand against cheaper drugs and a fresh bingle over that suburban barbecue-stopper, the legality of Israeli settlements, it is entirely fitting that the session should conclude with the unveiling of a Kevin Rudd official portrait so auto-parodic that no-one could stay grumpy.

More on the other stuff in a minute, but honestly … this portrait."

"..Different news outlets had different reads. News.com.au reported that the former PM was shown "at his kitchen table". The Sky News live broadcast broke the news that this was "the first official portrait to include a family pet … Mr Rudd's dog Abby". (Abby, a Golden Retriever who died three years ago, was understandably unavailable for comment.)" continuing their astonishing run of being wrong about every single thing! XD
Kevin's portrait receives a good cackle from Annabel & Brett (ABC)

The Chaser version: https://chaser.com.au/national/kevin-rudds-official-portrait-revealed/

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Chiaretta, No Filters

A few shots from an impromptu portrait session: no makeup, available light, minimal post processing.

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Migrant Self-Portrait Project Wins 2022 Sony World Photography Awards

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The Winning Photos from the Hasselblad Masters 2021 Competition

Hasselblad has announced the winners of the 2021 Masters photography competition across 12 categories. The winning photographers gain the title of "Hasselblad Master" and receive a medium format mirrorless Hasselblad camera.

The Hasselblad Masters competition is regarded as one of the world's most prestigious professional photography competitions, and winners are selected through a combination of a public vote and a professional Hasselblad Masters Jury comprised of internationally renowned photographers and imaging experts. A full list of Jury members can be viewed on Hasselblad's website.

Hasselblad says that this year's competition was larger than previous years and expanded to 12 categories to include Heritage, which commemorated Hasselblad's 80-year anniversary. The 2021 competition received a record-breaking number of over 63,000 submitted images, double the amount of uploaded images compared to 2018. Entrants do not need to have taken the photos with a Hasselblad camera.

In addition to the title of Hasselblad Master and a new medium format camera, winners will shoot for a collaborative project that is then published on all Hasselblad channels and in a high-quality commemorative Hasselblad Masters book, which will also contain a special feature on each of the 12 winners along with a selection of their images.

“It was incredible to see the number of professional photographers, Hasselblad and non-Hasselblad users, that participated in the 2021 competition. Not only was this year’s competition extra special due to the celebration of our anniversary, there were more than 89,000 votes overall!” said Hans Cornet, Hasselblad Client Relationship Manager. “With the abundance of creative participants and unique submissions, this gave all the judges involved a difficult task in determining the Hasselblad Masters 2021 winners.”

Below are all the winning photos:

Aerial - Photo by Florian Ledoux Architecture - Photo by Albrecht Voss Art - Photo by Gavin Goodman Beauty Fashion - Photo by Ramon Vaquero Heritage - Photo by Marcus Bitsch Landscape/Nature - Photo by Honghua Shi Portrait - Photo by Marek Würfl Product - Photo by Paul Fuentes Project 21 - Photo by Yihao Wang Street Urban - Photo by Nikolay_Schegolev Wedding - Photo by Matthäus Machner Wildlife - Photo by Alice Zilberberg

The full gamut of 2021 finalists can be viewed on Hasselblad's website as well as all of the official rules and a full timeline of the competition from its acceptance of entrants through voting.

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_Image credits: All photos individually credited and provided courtesy of Hasselblad Masters 2021. _

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Haunting Street Portraits of Those Living on the Fringes of Society

Imed Kolli is a street photographer who focuses on shooting black-and-white portraits of those living on the fringes of society. Through his project Eternal Faces, he aims to capture the soul and humanity of those who are often shunned.

"I use my camera as an unconventional way of seeing, framing, and communicating events of poor neighborhoods by shooting through obscure angles," Kolli tells PetaPixel. "The printed work offered a realistic view of my subjects with a slight bend of stillness, poverty, pain, and truth."

When a subject agrees to a portrait, Kolli gets in close and asks them to stand under a cover.

"In doing so, I created images that offer a clear version of reality outside on the poor neighborhoods," the photographer says. "[It] acts as a filter to the harsh reality of the poverty line city life outside."

It's to "draw attention through some beautiful people's portraits that summarize the diversity of the human race and to show how people are more the same than they are different," he continues. "What I do is photograph emotions."

Since his goal is to convey emotions and expressions, Kolli publishes his portraits without any location details or backstory.

"I tried to reach the authenticity of people who had contracted bitterness or resentfulness through their lives," Kolli says. "I expose the hardships and poor conditions of life of deprived people through their facial expressions. I do this in an attempt to assuage these problems. I want to vividly expose the realities of squalid living and misery caused by homelessness every day."

"Harrowing street portrait photography combined with emotional storytelling -- it's intended to engage and inform the audience and exhort them to act," the photographer says. "What I accomplished by taking these photographs from the streets was to inform the world of how people are suffering."

Kolli shoots with a Nikon D3200 APS-C DSLR and an 18-55mm Nikkor kit lens.

In post-processing, he mainly works with dodging and burning to "develop the mood" of his subjects. He also sharpens and illuminates the eyes and other distinctive facial features in post with this goal in mind.

"There is great stigma around people having the rough circumstances and the struggles that my subjects have had to endure during their existence," Kolli says. "Despite the fact that they all have this sort of extremely unfortunate life, I found them so uplifting and inspiring -- there was no self-pity whatsoever, and there was this sort of joy and the pleasure of being alive despite the fact that they were in this seemingly terrible situations.

"People who have the kind of resilience to still be able to smile back is what attracted me in some sort of emotional way to document their lives."

You can find more of Kolli's work on his website, Twitter, and Instagram.

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