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I first met Michael in Melbourne at the 2017 International AIDS Summit where I was covering the event taking portraits of various speakers. We got along so well that I arranged to photograph him again a week later in his Sydney chambers. He was surprisingly relaxed for such an accomplished and distinguished man, and the session proved to be very enjoyable for us both.
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