Winner for 2003
Finalists for 2003
- Brook Andrew - Kalar, midday
- Hany Armanious - Woman with mushrooms
- Robert Ashton - World vision
- Di Barrett - Significant others #3 Nina
- Leslie Benedek - Mother with sleeping child
- Robert Billington - Neil Ridge, dairy farmer
- Anthony Browell - David Moore, Dec. 2002
- Jane Burton - My Father – Harry Burton
- Jeff Darmanin - "No rain" Little Lucy of Brewarrina
- Tony Karen & Nott Raimond; Donnelly de Weerdt - The face of Albury
- Matthew Ditton - Anita's stitched portrait (neutral face series)
- Rex Dupain - Emma Tom
- George Rose & Parkin Farrell - Self portrait
- Chantal Faust - Float
- Paul Ferman - Stephen Grant, Balgo Hills
- Paul Freeman - Ky Hurst
- Peter Giaprakas - John Marsden
- Emil Goh - The schoolboy
- Hugh Hamilton - Richard Butler
- Terry Hartin - Hope
- Gary Heery - The family – self portrait
- Petrina Hicks - Lauren
- Stuart Humphreys - Professor Michael Archer with Thylacine
- Mark Kimber - Hossein Valamanesh 2003
- Julian Kingma - Dylan
- Friedrich Kroh - Prof. Bernard Smith
- Mart Lebedey - I, Craig Hemphill
- Jon Lewis - Last portrait of Chief Kipano
- Peter Luck - The Photographer and 1,000 of his subjects
- Robert McFarlane - John Bell directing actress Anna Torv in Hamlet
- Michael Mischkulnig - Genevieve
- Lewis Morley - Ikon Dekon Struction (Storm in a tea pot)
- Donna Murty Todd - Old red eyes
- Vanila Netto - Next of kin (Nok)
- Selina Ou - Anita (ticket seller)
- Polixeni Papapetrou - Oympia as Lewis Carroll’s Beatrice Hatch next to White Cliffs
- Jeremy Park - The art of buying
- Bradley Patrick - Mother and son
- Ian Provest - The Honourable Justice Michael Kirby AC.CMG
- Bronwyn Rennex - Stella in blue
- Lee-Anne Richards - Katie Ball
- Tim Richardson - Jordan
- Julie Rrap - Fleshstone portrait series (Dr. Paul Sutherland)
- Gareth Sansom - Self portrait
- Sarah Smuts-Kennedy - Ecce homo #5
- John Sultana - Voyeur (self portrait)
- Petrina Tinslay - Akira
- Lachlan Warner - Auto portrait
- Greg Weight - Railroad blues Jim Conway 2003 (Winner: Photographic Portrait Prize (discontinued) 2003)
- Justene Williams - Tony
- Anne Zahalka - Guangan Wu, market gardens, Kyeemagh
