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Living Memory Finalist
This photo of Jayden was taken during a project I was working on in the northern suburbs of Adelaide where my father grew up, and where the shadows of the shuttered industrial car-manufacturing plants of Ford and Holden (alongside the now near-derelict port) loom large. It is a work about frail masculinity, petrolheads, and left-behind suburbs. It was inspired by my father's childhood – and my own – and made with the real people from those communities (and my life). This photo was taken out on the salt flats where I used to take photos.
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