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How a chance encounter led Wayne Quilliam to capture the winning entry to the 2022 National Photographic Portrait Prize

Silent Strength, taken by Wayne Quilliam, is the winner of the National Photographic Portrait Prize for 2022. (Supplied: National Portrait Gallery)

A chance encounter at an Indigenous dance festival in far-north Queensland has resulted in this year's winner of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Indigenous photographer Wayne Quilliam was capturing photos at the Laura Quinkan dance festival, a showcase of Indigenous history through dance, when he saw a familiar face — that of Aurukun man, Eric Yunkaporta.

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