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Mikayla with her brothers, 2023

Zoe Helene Karouzos

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024 Finalist

pigment photographic print on paper (frame: 132.5cm x 104.9cm depth 4.5cm)

Zoe Helene Karouzos
born Australia 1993

Mikayla with her brothers 2023
pigment photographic print on paper

‘It was hot down at the river. Jax waded into the water, his mum yelling at him to come back and get into the photo. Four siblings, all tired from the night before, looked at me through my lens. I remembered what it was like to feel as though everything my parents asked me to do was a burden, and I knew that later in life Mikayla and her brothers would be grateful for these moments together.’

Zoe Helene Karouzos is an Australian/Greek photographer working on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country in Kamberri/Canberra. Her work explores the intricacies and importance of interpersonal relationships, genealogy and our emotional connection to ancestors.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024

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