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<v Jessica>My, kind of, way of living</v>

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is not trying to live in regrets.

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I think everything you do takes you a step further to

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being the best you can.

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You make a mistake, you gave it go,

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and you must try it again.

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And there's always gonna be a way out.

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It's just being patient with it, it's all.

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Learning the patience.

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I'm always learning, I think.

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I'm always kinda finding people that

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are inspiring me everyday,

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and I always felt it was just healing.

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Music is a healing process for me,

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and I'm sure it kind of really takes people

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through their story, at times, when they're by themselves,

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or when they're with a group of people, or crowd.

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You feel this, kind of, permission to just be you.

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I think that's why I'm so close with music.

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That's why I'm, I have so much faith in it,

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and I put everything into it.

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You know, in the 15 years that I've been working,

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my way of presenting music, or performing, or singing,

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so, you know, I have so much respect for it,

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and you know, and we'll never lose that because

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it's always given me something back.

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<v David>Jess had this incredible energy,</v>

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which really seems to come across and she also seemed

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to be a very, sort of, authentic person.

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And that sense of vitality, and sort of optimism as well,

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is something that I really wanted to get across

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in the portrait.

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And we talked about art, and music,

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and how you sort of represent that, in a sort of,

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visual medium, so it was sort of collaborative,

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very much in terms of those initial conversations.

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The photographic shoot was quite a simple set up really.

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Just had a sort of, large black backdrop

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and the photographs were black and white,

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and they're just taken on this old 35 millimetre camera

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of mine, so it was all very low-tech and quite simple

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lighting, so it really makes it a much more, sort of,

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human interaction I think, in terms of the relationship

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between the photographer and the sitter.

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There's not a lot of, sort of, technology

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or other, sort of, imagery in the way.

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The technique that I was using was the double exposure,

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where you run the same film through the camera twice,

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so you effectively take two images and one overlaps

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on top of the other.

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There's not a great degree of control that you have

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as to which image, sort of, overlays with what,

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and how the two images combine,

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and I kind of really enjoy that sort of element

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of chance and the sort of unexpected sort

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of nature of that process.

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In the past, when I've done portraits in this,

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using this method, I've probably taken maybe four or five

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rolls, but because this was, you know, the stakes

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are a little bit higher, I took about 14 rolls.

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So, yeah.

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<v Jessica>I had, really had working parents who</v>

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just wanted their children to, you know, succeed in life

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and do what they love and have a good life,

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but also a giving one, so that those values

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and those traditions in culture could be carried on.

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So, I think all of those kind of really come into play

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when I make that a part of my job.

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There's nothing like being a part of your community,

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and possibly making a difference, just by being yourself

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and making a pathway for the next generation

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or for people to come who wanna leave their mark

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and tell their stories.

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It's pretty, yeah, it's pretty cool.

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<v David>I really wanted to present this</v>

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multifaceted perspective of Jessica.

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We talked about this idea of chaos and stillness

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and how she manages to stay quite, sort of, centred

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within herself despite the sort of crazy lifestyle

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and I think she was about to head off to Eurovision,

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so with one of the layers of the images, she'd be

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quite still and looking directly at the camera

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and then with one of the other layers, she was sort of

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doing more movement.

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<v Jessica>The portrait process has been different,</v>

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I guess, working with David on, just having a bit of a play,

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having a bit of movement, really creating those layers

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of personality, and that's what we're channelling

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in the studio, is being strong, being loving to yourself

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and kind, but also being wild.

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I think, there's nothing like just being yourself

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and finding those little things that either make you tick

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or challenge you or make you feel so alive,

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is what we're creating in this portrait.

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<v David>I hope the portrait will convey</v>

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Jessica in a way that, there's this really strong

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sense of inner confidence and strength and directness,

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that the viewer can connect with,

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but at the same time I wanted to have some other

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more, sort of, mysterious or intangible quality

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to the portrait, which represents something a little bit

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more emotional, which relates not to her singing,

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you know, which does I think connect with you

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in a slightly more sort of intangible and almost

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a physical way, it sort of cuts through,

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so I'm hoping that those two sort of,

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aspects will be present.

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<v Jessica>Yeah, I, wow, there are so many things,</v>

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you could go for days.

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But I think, honestly, to really take pride

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in themselves, I really hope this photo projects

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their inner spirit, their inner souls, their courage.

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I want it to almost be like a mirror image of them,

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in the sense that they can do whatever

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they put their mind to.

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You know, I think it is about being brave

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and trying to find whatever that confidence within you,

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that's so, deep down there, be kind to it,

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and it'll come up every time you do it and you try.

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Thank you.

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That's crazy, how crazy is that?

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It's super awesome.

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<v ->Wow!</v>