Sydney Morning herald

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/revealed-the-face-of-sydney/2006/10/05/1159641464886.html

http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/faceofsydney/index.html

This project raises questions about the nature of archive itself, about the construction of ideals and archetypes, and about the development of the portrait genre.
Craig Judd
Artist & Writer

[Facing Australia] is a novel and potent means to advance our appreciation of what it means to be ourselves. The portrayal of an accurate sample of the people around us should fix our attention on the actuality of our lives, letting us appreciate patterns that we experience everyday day but from which we fail to draw meaning.
Humphrey McQueen
Historian & Writer

The National Photographic Portrait Project is an innovative approach to using photography as a tool for social comment. The methodology used gives ownership of the finished product to all those involved.
Dr Audray Banfield AM

Facing Australia: a fascinating look at statistics through photographers’ eyes. You will love it. Brisbane, Barossa and Albury already do.

Chris Pidd
Manager Regional Arts Development
Murray Arts Inc

The most exciting photographic portraiture project I have ever been involved with. A singularly spectacular visualisation of twenty-first century Australians. Each of the visually strong portraits with its fuzzy edges encapsulates who we are: a multi-layered diversity of individuals, who when taken together exhibit common traits. The portraits are a feast for eyes and mind.
Professor Dirk Spennemann

I haven’t smiled in ten years - until this
42 year old male participant, Nudgee Beach

The project lent a different perspective to the task I often set myself as an historian of portraying a local society at a given point of time. In addition to analysis of census returns and contemporary comment, we now have the face of a place.
Professor Bruce Pennay
Historian & Writer

[Facing Australia] highlights the fact that our indigenous population are terribly invisible. It certainly now brings into question how accurate our perceptions might be of cultural diversity and therefore the perceived problems associated with it.
Dr William Robbins

That was fun
Simone, age 9, participant St Lucia