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Can you tell us a little bit
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about this incredible portrait?
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Sure, thanks so much Jill and for having me here.
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And yeah, so the portrait's of my mother, Catherine,
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and the photograph was taken
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in a family home that we had
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and my mother was relocating to Tasmania.
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And on the last day that we were there
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I asked her to stand for this portrait
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and yeah, she's holding a sculpture
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that belonged to my grandfather that had a lot of,
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you know, meaning to me and a lot of memories there.
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And so I wrote some text for it and I reached out to
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a very talented colorist in London, Jordan Lloyd,
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and he kind of responded to the text
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and the sentiments of the photograph with the colour.
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So it kind of, yeah,
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it created this sort of,
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I guess, an image or a portrait of my mother
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which I hope is sort of speaks more of the sentiment
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than any kind of reality
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'cause of course these things can't really be pictured
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or or written about in a way that kind of articulates.
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So here we are.
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There's been a few artists actually that we've spoken to
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in the exhibition who have turned to
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family and friends and loved ones as subjects
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simply because they were forced to
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during the COVID lockdown.
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Is that something you can relate to
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or is it just something you naturally came to over time?
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For me, it's sort of started more from a place of,
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you know, I started looking through
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archival family photography
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in a way to kind of better understand and position,
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you know, myself,
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and that's kind of as a photographer, you know,
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making work about largely about a country
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where you know, I'm the son of of immigrants and you know,
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it sort of stemmed from there,
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but, and you know, ultimately it's
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I think a lot of photographers are trying to
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hang onto things around them
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and that's why they take pictures.
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It took me a really long time to work that out about myself,
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but, you know, that's where I'm at.
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And I read this amazing quote once
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and I can't even tell you who said it,
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but it was, you know,
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"Photograph the things that you love the most."
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And I had just read that actually just before you know,
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making this image of my mom
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and I really think that, you know,
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that's a really important sentiment
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that you can take to your photography
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and I think I'm not the only one that's doing that,
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I think a lot of people are realising that.
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