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<v ->Would you like to tell us a little bit about yourself</v>

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and your beautiful portrait?

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<v ->Yes, and my name's Lauren and this is Poppy,</v>

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and this is obviously a self portrait of us

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taken last year in August

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when we sort of went into lockdown in Canberra

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and we had all these trips planned and we were like,

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and I was really excited

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about getting back into photography again

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and after maternity leave and yeah.

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So I was like,

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okay, I'm just gonna take photos at home and yeah.

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<v ->And have you been taking photographs for a long time?</v>

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<v ->Yeah, quite a while.</v>

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Probably professionally for the last few years

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but definitely more of a hobby before that,

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but yeah I think it's helped building

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sort of my practise slowly

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to sort of find my style a bit more

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and yeah, who I am as a photographer.

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<v ->And his portraiture something that is common</v>

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in your photography practise.
<v ->Yeah.</v>

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Lots of families

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and since having her and maternity,

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yeah newborns and families

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and a few weddings and things.

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But yeah, definitely love taking photos of people

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and yeah, those more so,

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I guess more of a documentary sort of style

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of finding moments that people wanna remember.

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<v ->And how did you feel when you got the news</v>

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that you were a finalist in the prize?

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<v ->I was very shocked.</v>

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I wasn't even gonna enter

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and my grandma said, "No, you have to enter."

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So yeah.

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Very, yeah happy and proud of,

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yeah, what we achieved.

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