Aurukun portrait wins national photo prize

By Liz Hobday
Updated July 1 2022 - 8:06pm, first published 8:00pm
Photographer Wayne Quilliam, left, has won the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Photographer Wayne Quilliam, left, has won the National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Aurukun man Eric Yunkaporta was about to step onto the ceremonial dance grounds at a festival in remote far north Queensland, when photographer Wayne Quilliam asked if he could take a quick photo.

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