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Living Memory Finalist
2020 was a year that shook the ground beneath our feet, generating a swarm of re-evaluations and decisions based on what felt important and necessary as our lives ground to a staggeringly slow and unfamiliar pace, with our freedoms taken away. This is a portrait of my son in a Lakes Entrance caravan park, taken as we headed back towards my home town in northern New South Wales. After seemingly endless months of isolating in the intimate and familiar setting of our home, he exists here in a sterile and transient 'non-place', on the cusp of a new life.
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An interview with Tajette O'Halloran, Finalist in the Living Memory National Photographic Portrait Prize.
The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.
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