MELBOURNE photographer Janelle Low was just weeks away from joining the queues at Centrelink when she received a call telling her she had won the $25,000 National Photographic Portrait Prize.
"I was thinking of writing my resume, thinking I might have to put photography aside for a little while, but I won't have to now," the 22-year-old told AAP in Canberra.
"I'll be able to live and get by, have dinner every night, and take photos. That's the dream for me, to shoot all the time."
Ms Low's portrait Yhonnie and Indiana beat 52 others shortlisted for the prize, awarded by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra on Friday.
Her small portrait of artist friend Yhonnie Scarce and her cat Indiana was described by gallery curator and judge Joanna Gilmour as "a tiny photograph that punches above its weight".
The picture, taken of a sick 18-year-old Indiana just days before she was put down, is a "very resonant little photograph about love and death and loss and attachment, and all those sorts of things we can relate to", Ms Gilmour said.
Ms Low said the shot was organised quickly after Scarce arrived late to one of her own art openings, having had to take Indiana to the vet.
"She just said, 'Would you mind if you took a portrait of us together really soon because I don't think she has long left,'" Ms Low said.
"I think a day or two later we took the shot, and a day or two after that she had to put Indiana down.
"It was very quick, very sudden thing."
The shoot was equally brief, Ms Low said.
"It was the middle of winter in Melbourne so it was grey, and the light just came out for a few minutes," she said.
"I knew I had it when I saw it in the back of the camera."
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