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Joel Edgerton

2007 (printed 2014)
Ingvar Kenne

type C photograph on paper, edition 1/7 (frame: 103.0 cm x 103.0 cm, sheet: 100.0 cm x 100.0 cm)
Joel Edgerton

Gift of the artist 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
© Ingvar Kenne

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Artist and subject

Ingvar Kenne (age 42 in 2007)

Joel Edgerton (age 33 in 2007)

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Ingvar Kenne (15 portraits)

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The Companion

Permanent collection catalogue

Publications

On one level The Companion talks about the most famous and frontline Australians, but on another it tells us about ourselves.
Cormac + Callum Kenne, My Children, Sydney, Australia, 2009
Cormac + Callum Kenne, My Children, Sydney, Australia, 2009
Cormac + Callum Kenne, My Children, Sydney, Australia, 2009
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Citizen Kenne

Magazine article by April Thompson, 2013

April Thompson explores an exhibition of Ingvar Kenne’s global portrait project.
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Names not known by Ingvar Kenne
Names not known by Ingvar Kenne
Names not known by Ingvar Kenne

Ingvar Kenne

Citizen

Previous exhibition, 2012

Swedish-born Australian photographer, Ingvar Kenne, captures both individuality and shared human experience in his ongoing portrait project Citizen.
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