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<v ->What a great turnout, thank you for being here.</v>

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I'd personally like to welcome you all

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to the National Portrait Gallery here today,

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and I acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land,

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the Ngambri and the Ngunnawal peoples.

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Hello, I'm Karen Quinlan,

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the director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia.

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This is the 13th year

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of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.

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We were very excited to receive

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over 2,500 entries this year.

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We are proud to present this beautiful exhibition

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of the 48 finalists.

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The winner of the National Photographic Portrait Prize

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this year will be awarded over $50,000 in prizes,

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including $30,000 in cash from the Portrait Gallery,

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plus a range of the latest photographic equipment

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from Canon, valued at $22,000.

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The highly commended photographer

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will receive an Eizo ColorEdge 27-inch monitor,

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valued at over $3,000.

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The photographer who receives the most votes

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in the People's Choice Award will receive a prize

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of fine art printing to the value of $2,200,

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thanks to Sun Studios.

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Exhibitions like this are made possible

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thanks to the generous support of our partners.

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For this exhibition, we are also grateful

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for the support of Midnight Hotel,

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the Autograph Collection, Canberra.

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Now, for the very exciting moment.

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The winner of the 2020 NPPP highly commended prize

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is awarded to Hugh Stewart for his portrait

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of 105-year-old dancer Eileen Kramer.

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It is my great pleasure to let you know that the winner

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of the 2020 National Photographic Portrait Prize

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is Rob Palmer for his portrait of Chef Josh Niland,

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titled "The Mahi-Mahi."

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(man cheers)
(audience applauding)

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Congratulations.

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(both laughing)

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Thank you.

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<v ->Rob, congratulations on winning</v>

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the National Photographic Portrait Prize.

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<v ->Thank you so much, Gill.</v>

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Thank you so much.

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<v ->Can you tell us a little bit about this amazing portrait?</v>

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This is a picture of Josh Niland who is the chef and owner

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of Saint Peter restaurant in Sydney.

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Josh does a lot of amazing stuff with fish at the moment.

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It's earned him a lot of accolades around the world.

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But one of his big things is using all of the fish,

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so he's aiming towards zero waste.

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All the parts of the fish are used in his cooking.

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Traditionally, western cultures

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like to avoid eyes and bones and scales.

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A lot goes into Josh's cooking.

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<v ->Did you just wake up one morning and think,</v>

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"I need to take a portrait of Josh"?

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How did the actual sitting come about?

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<v ->Well, Josh and I have been working together last year</v>

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on a book that he's done.

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He's done his first cookbook.

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So we've been working together

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over a period of a week or two.

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This was just a moment that's during that shoot

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that presented itself where Josh pulled out

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this massive mahi-mahi and he just had this sort of,

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I mean, he has so much respect for the food

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and the fish he works with,

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and it's just this almost intimate moment

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between him and his fish.

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<v ->Did you have to set up the composition much at all</v>

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or is this all pretty,

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was there any sort of artificial lighting that you needed,

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or is it all fairly natural?

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<v ->This is just shot with one light.</v>

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I was saying earlier that you,

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some shots you kinda gotta fight for

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to compose them and get the subject right and light them.

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This is one of those shots that presented itself,

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and it was almost my job to just document that

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without putting too much of my thumbprint on it.

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So it's just very basic lighting.

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<v ->Fabulous.</v>

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And there was a kind of an entertaining moment earlier

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at the announcement where it suddenly dawned on you

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what you'd actually won. (laughs)

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<v ->(laughing) Yes, I had.</v>

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You sort of enter these amazing competitions

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and I don't enter them very often,

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and you don't ever expect to win them.

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So I'd always dreamt of being involved with something

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with the National Portrait Gallery,

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but I never expected to win,

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so I hadn't really read all of the rewards.

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And so when it got read out before us,

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like, wow, (laughing) there's some amazing prize

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involved in this, too.

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<v ->Well, congratulations.</v>

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And thanks so much for sharing this amazing portrait with us

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and with everybody in Australia.

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Congratulations.
<v ->Thank you very much.</v>

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Thank you very much.

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I'm stoked.