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- So, I'm Ingvar Kenne

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and I'm the National Portrait
Prize winner in 2009,

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with the portrait of my two
sons, Callum and Cormac.

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The pool where my two
sons are photographed in

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is a place I never really liked.

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You walk in there, it's like walking

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into this chloride filled
dungeon, hot and steam,

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and kids used to love it!

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So we used to have to sit
there for hours on end so,

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it wasn't my favourite
place to be (laughs)

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And I had just came up
from the bigger pool myself

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and walked into this kind of moment

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where the boys had been playing around

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with the foam in the spar
section, and they had flippers on,

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I don't know what game they were into.

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And I said, look, instantly
knew that this is brilliant.

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Either I walk into a space
like, like with the kids,

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they were in it, but in NLCS you walk in

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and it's like it's a beautiful frame.

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Normally it's the location
that gets me going.

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But occasionally it's just,

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oh, this person just wonderful, you know?

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And then I'm looking around
and trying to work out

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where that portrait can work

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within that moment of
having met that person.

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Yeah, so, the importance of prizes.

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I, enter a lot of prizes, myself,

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photographic prizes, and put it in there,

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otherwise you can't win.

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I remember the feeling and I like it,

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but it was like Chris
Chapman called me up and say,

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so it was almost like
he expected me to know.

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Like the way he delivered it was like,

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yeah, so you won the portrait prize.

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As in, let's just formalise this,

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come back to Canberra and pick it up.

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It's like, it felt like, he
thought I should have known.

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To be accepted is kind of,

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I think that's kind of,
generally you should feel kind of

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really good about that.

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Just to be part of the
community that sort of represent

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the portrait prize or the portrait work

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in that particular calendar year

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is a great achievement, I think.

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To have one of them acknowledged,

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felt like an acknowledgment
for the whole process.

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I think, over those years.

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And it was like a, a nice fit for me,

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that it was of the two boys

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and we could all be
there to share it really.

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Since the prize I've just
continued taking more portraits

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and using my strict
parameters and, you know,

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I just keep doing what I do.

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I don't change to what's
in fashion or in Vogue.

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I just keep doing what I do.

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So that was the biggest
thing that allowed me to,

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I think just gave me confidence
to keep going on a journey

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that I want to continue being on.