Seven decades of Walkley Award-winning sports photography will be on show at Bondi Beach Promenade when the 2025 Head On Photo Festival opens on Friday 7 November.
The display of winning images from the Walkley awards for Sport Photography at the Bondi Beach Promenade. (Source: Walkley Awards.)
The images, taken from the winners of the Walkley for Sport Photography collection span a period from 1998 to 2024 and cover a vast range of sports, events and visual styles. Depicting the country’s sports history, culture and humanity through moments of sporting achievement and agony, they show how the winning photographers have been masters of timing and the elements, using the play of light, weather, emotion, and playing surfaces to capture the split-second moments that mean everything to an athlete. Works from the following photographers are on show:
1998 David Gray, Reuters,
1999 Mark Evans, The Daily Telegraph
2000 Guy Wilmott, freelance
2000 Jodie Richter-Nolan, Bundaberg News-Mail
2001 Craig Borrow, Herald Sun
2002 Joe Mann, Herald Sun
2003 Adam Pretty, Getty Images
2004 Ray Kennedy, The Age
2005 Joe Armao, The Age
2006 Angela Wylie, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
2006 Phil Hillyard, News Limited
2007 Craig Golding, The Sydney Morning Herald
2009 Phil Hillyard, The Daily Telegraph
2010 Michael Dodge, Herald Sun online
2011 Adam Pretty, Getty Images
2013 Wolter Peters, Fairfax Media
2014 Cameron Spencer, Getty Images
2016 Cameron Spencer, Getty Images
2017 Scott Barbour, Getty Images
2018 Scott Barbour, Getty Images
2019 Craig Golding, AAP
2020 Sam Ruttyn, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph
2021 Alex Coppel, Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Courier-Mail and The Advertiser
2022 Cameron Spencer, Getty Images
2023 Quinn Rooney, Getty Images
2024 Quinn Rooney, Getty Images
The exhibition can be viewed along the Bondi Beach Promenade, Queen Elizabeth Drive Bondi Beach, NSW, until 30 November. It is free of charge.
