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type C photograph
19 x 24 cm (each panel)
Year 12, Narrabundah College, Canberra
Rozie Pepper, Lydia Connell, Jill Murphy. Three seventeen-year-old girls, who play bass guitar, surrounded by everything they love and look at or use everyday. I am not too concerned with the opinion of some that holding objects of importance is shallow. What about the emotional side of materialism? Surely if you live in a space long enough, you know will be yours for a while, the objects that you fill it with will reflect your personality. I feel that especially with this age group, their individual identity regarding society can be defined by the things they own.
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