They may bicker over who gets to use the camera, but these award-winning Dunedin siblings each love photography for their own reasons.
Jack (14) and Emily (11) Aubin were two of the winners in this year’s Otago Museum Photography Awards.
Emily won the Youth Photographer of the Year award as well as the youth wildlife category with a photo of two young terns.
Jack won the youth botanical category with a close-up photo of an Alpinia pod.
Jack first entered the competition in 2016 and has won four awards previously. Emily won once before for her first-time entry in 2017.
The family spent a lot of time outdoors, which opened them up to a lot of photography opportunities, Jack said.
Although they each owned their own equipment, he and his sister were often caught without their gear.
Jack joked that they sometimes fought over who got to use their parents’ cameras.
The system seemed to work though, as his sister borrowed their mother’s camera for the award-winning shot, he said.
His sister enjoyed the many different approaches one could take in photography, while he liked how sharing a photograph felt like sharing a memory.
Emily may have won the Youth Photographer of the Year, but she did not hesitate to admit she thought her brother was the better photographer.
They both planned to continue entering the competition and keep up their photography in the future, they said.
