The 2024 Head On Photo Award winners have been announced at the launch of this year’s Head On Festival.
Exposure Winner: Antonio Denti with Kids from generation Alpha growing in a world exponentially different from anything known by their predecessors, playing with technology while night falls in a primordial stretch of coast by Mount Etna’s volcano, in the Mediterranean.
Portrait Winner: Drew Gardner for his black and white image of a descendant of a black slave from the US Civil war. It took three years to research and recreate, including the painstaking reconstruction of the costume. The sitter had to remain still for the 40 second exposure from the TinType camera from the 19th century.
Landscape Winner: Kinga Wrona for his image of a house in La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands after the eruption of volcano Cumbre Vieja.
The winners were selected from around 4,000 entries globally from more than 600 photographers. See all winners and runners up.
The Head On Festival in Sydney features a series of events and nearly 100 exhibitions along Bondi’s oceanside promenade, The Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Paddington Reservoir Gardens and UTS campus.
The festival runs until 1 December 2024. For more information see the Head On website.
