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National Photographic Portrait Prize 2016 Finalist
Fostin arrived in Australia in 2007 from Burundi, East Africa, when his mother found him after ten years of separation, living as a child soldier. A rapper/songwriter, dancer and youth arts worker, he studies Youth Work at Victoria University, and works on community arts projects across Melbourne. A strong sense of family and community, as well as a desire to create something of his own, has led him and three friends to self-fund a record label, on which he is an artist and mentor to younger artists. This portrait forms a series on young Australians of the African diaspora.
The National Photographic Portrait Prize 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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