Controversial portraits win 2014 NATSIAA

A SERIES of tough, striking portraits of young men as walking targets has received the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.

TWENTY young men stare down the barrel of the camera as though it's a gun.

THEY'RE shirtless, with large red targets painted on their chests. Some stand with arms crossed, some with their hands on their hips or behind their backs. All are Aboriginal.