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Nadia Stone. Video length: 1 minute 27 seconds

- This is my kids during lockdown. We had this idea because there was no birthday party during lockdown. So we decided we wanted to make a fun of it. It was my youngest's birthday and she loved balloons. And so we just catch a moment like this. I had an idea, but they did something different. So I just grabbed it while I can.

- You've caught some amazing expressions there. Are they very familiar expressions to you?

- Yeah, yeah, she does this face all the time. She's a cheeky one.

- So was the photograph staged at all or have you just captured a pretty spontaneous moment?

- Yup. The first photo was staged, but this one wasn't. She just stand up like this and I just like, oh. I just like the lights, how it's falling on the face. And I like her expression, so yeah, just grabbed my camera and just say, "Stay!" And I just did the photos. They are used to my camera so they kind of, you know, know what they have to do in front of it.

- I love that you've actually got this kind of these little faces that are drawn on the balloon that seemed to be kind of echoing the faces of the children.

- Yeah and the girls did it. So I like the fact that they helped me to do the photo. It's a work that we did together and it's nice.

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