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Ivy, 2024

Justin Deng

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024 Finalist

pigment photographic print on paper (frame: 46.0cm x 40.5cm depth 4.0cm)

Justin Deng
born Australia 2000

Ivy 2024
pigment photographic print on paper

‘Growing up with a sibling 10 years younger can sometimes feel like peering through a time portal and seeing fragments of your own childhood. Watching my younger sister emerge from childhood and enter her early teens, I feel she struggles with many of the same problems I had both at home and in school, especially with issues which stem from being children of migrants. This portrait of Ivy was taken out in the front yard of our family home, a few days before I moved out of the house we both grew up in.’

Justin Deng is a Naarm/Melbourne-based photographer. His practice reflects on his Chinese/Australian cultural upbringing, and the complicated feelings that arise when navigating this transcultural identity.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024

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