Head On Photo Festival is offering a prize pool that includes $30,000 cash for this year’s Head On Photo Awards.
Head On Student Award 2021 Winner – Chege Mbuthi.
The categories for this year’s awards are Portrait, Landscape and Student. The Landscape and Portrait Awards are open to international photographers and the Student Awards are open to all Australian primary and secondary school students.
The Australian and international judges include curators, picture editors, photographers, and educators.
Winners will be announced at the Head On Photo Festival 2022 launch. The works will be exhibited at the new Head On Photo Village Bondi Beach and at Paddington Reservoir Gardens during the festival dates 5-20 November 2022.
Entries are open until 5 June 2022.
For more details see the Head On Awards website.
Head On Landscape Award 2021 Winner by Aletheia Casey.
‘This work is a very personal reaction to the Australian fires of 2019/2020 which destroyed an estimated 18.6 million hectares of land, and almost destroyed my family home. As I live in London and I was unable to travel home, I took existing prints from my last trip home to Australia and painted them with inks and oils, in an attempt to express my devastation at what my country has experienced and to reflect on the loss of land and life. The interference and distortion of my brushstrokes on the prints are a mirror of human intervention in nature, my own hand attempting to control the uncontrollable.’
