Ingvar Kenne, Swedish photographer from down under, won the Photographic Portrait prize at the National Portrait Gallery i Canberra. This is a great honor for Ingvar, an outstanding portrait photographer. Link to his site can be found under I Like, to the right...
"Mr Andrew Sayers, Director, National Portrait Gallery announced today the winner of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 is Ingvar Kenne for the submission titled Cormac and Callum. The photograph depicts two boys standing beside an indoor spa pool. The atmospheric qualities of the interior space are powerfully conveyed. VISA has generously sponsored the exhibition and will provide the winning prize money of $25 000. The winning work is featured in an exhibition of fifty-six portraits from the finalists' and will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery until 17 May 2009."
"Kenne says he applies the same principles to his work whether he is shooting celebrities like film director Baz Luhrmann or a tribesman in Papua New Guinea.Predominantly working with film, he only recently bought himself a digital SLR camera after months of borrowing one, but he says he hopes to continue working with film for a long time.
"It's hard to get hold of film sometimes, but I have a dark room and I do my own work," he said.
"The capturing of film, I think, is a very different thing to shooting on digital and I prefer it."
Mr Kenne says there is a danger of the art of photography becoming diluted as it becomes more readily accessibly through technology such as camera phones.
"I think you still have to do the hard yards to take good photographs ... regardless of if you shoot digital or film," he said."
Quotes from Portrait Gallery website and ABC Canberra.
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