Yen Head On Photo Festival Event Picks

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WESTFIELD BONDI JUNCTION Richard & Famous – Richard Simpkin This exhibition has no language barriers – it works from Australia to Europe, USA, Asia the Middle East and everywhere in between. Artist Richard Simpkin has been able to capture his life in photos over 24 consecutive years. You not only see Richard change throughout the years, but you also see changes in the multitude of celebrities that he has been photographed with.

Today, with its technological advancements, everyone is taking photos on their phones & other devices. The Richard & Famous exhibition started long before the invention of camera phones. It captures the innocence between fan & celebrity that today has been lost. Although most people these days have a photo or two taken with a celebrity, it is hard to deny that Richard Simpkin has achieved a remarkable feat and now has one of the most fascinating self-portrait exhibitions in the world today. www.richardandfamous.com

Box Brownie Landscape – Alice Blanch This series depicts the Australian landscape in its raw state. The series embraces the moods and textures of the landscape rather than the specific geographic details of where the exposures where taken. By highlighting these ephemeral elements in the landscape the resulting images are filled with ambiguity and emotion. The photographs in this series were all captured at various locations around Australia in a 1940’s Box Brownie camera on black and white 120 film. Alice Blanch is an emerging Australian photographer influenced by the ephemeral nature of the sky and its relationship to the landscape below. Alice works with photographic film in old cameras, enjoying the possibility for magical and unpredictable results and is passionate about using analogue processes and techniques in new and experimental ways. http://www.aliceblanch.com/ LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Westfield Bondi Junction – Richard & Famous: Level 6 near Event Cinema; Box Brownie Landscape: Valet Parking Lounge level P4 Address: 500 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction, NSW 2022 Dates: 8 May – 22 May 2014 Time: 9.30am – 6pm (Saturday - Wednesday) 9.30am – 9pm (Thursday) 9.30am – 7pm (Friday) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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Full Circle – Ross Halfin Full circle is a collection of iconic rock and roll photography. Chris Halfin spent most of the 80's touring with bands like Iron Maiden, Metallica, Def Leppard, Kiss, Motley Crue and documenting his journey through rock and roll.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Westfield Bondi Junction – Full Circle; Level 6, near Event Cinema Address: 500 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction, NSW 2022 Dates: 8 May – 22 May 2014 Time 9.30am – 6pm (Saturday - Wednesday) 9.30am – 9pm (Thursday) 9.30am – 7pm (Friday) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

Grand Masters Of Photography – David Hamilton, George Hoyningen-Huene, Steve Hiett, Jean Dieuzaide, Bert Stern Discover the world of photography through the eyes and lens of the Grand Masters at YellowKorner Gallery in Westfield: David Hamilton, George Hoyningen-Huene, Steve Hiett, Jean Dieuzaide, Bert Stern, to name only a few!

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: YellowKorner Westfield Bondi Junction Grand Masters Of Photography: Level 4, near the Eastern Address: 500 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction, NSW 2022 Dates: 8 May – 22 May 2014 Time: 9:30am - 6:00pm (Monday – Wednesday) 9:30am - 9:00pm (Thursday) 9:30am - 7:00pm, (Friday) 10:00am - 6:00pm (Sunday) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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STILLS GALLERY

Mary Ellen Mark This is Mark’s first solo exhibition in Australia, and it features some of her most iconic images. Mary Ellen Mark is an iconic photographer, renowned for her work and a very well respected peer in global photography circles.

From the haunting portrait of street kid “Tiny” dressed in her Halloween costume, to senior citizens getting down on a dance floor in Luigi's Italian American Club in Miami and the eccentricities of the Indian Circus – Mark’s images are, as she has described them, “full of ironies, often humorous and sometimes sad, beautiful and ugly, loving and at times cruel, but always human.” In addition to these iconic images is a selection of photographs taken in Australia on a National Geographic assignment for the 1988 Bicentennial. These images looked at the indigenous community in Redfern, as well as recent immigrants from places like Lebanon and Vietnam, capturing the diversity of cultures and voices that existed in Australia at the time. ! http://www.maryellenmark.com/ http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2006-Le-Ra/Mark-Mary-Ellen.html http://photography.about.com/od/famousphotographers/a/maryellenmarkbiography.htm LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Stills Gallery Address: 36 Gosbell Street, Paddington, NSW 2021 Dates: 7 May – 7 June 2014 Time: 11am to 5pm Wednesday to Saturday URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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ST CANICE CHURCH

Sudarios – Erika Diettes Erika Diettes travelled to different cities in Antioquia (Colombia) to interview women who had been present at the torture and murder of their loved ones. Diettes photographed the women, closely cropped in black and white, at a moment of great vulnerability - all but one with their eyes closed.

The resultant twenty photographs were printed on seven feet tall silk panels and form the work 'Sudarios' (shrouds are a burial cloak, a cloth that shrouds the body of the deceased).

The work is usually displayed in sacred spaces such as churches and convents with a sound track of a barely audible, sighing female voice.

In Sydney, the work will be exhibited at St Canice Church in Potts Point which has a long tradition of working with marginalised people and refugees. Erika will be in Sydney and will talk about her work at St Canice Church. www.erikadiettes.com Erika Diettes will be in Sydney from 6th – 19th May for interviews.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: St Canice Church Address: 28 Roslyn Street, Elizabeth Bay, NSW 2011 Dates: 12 May – 8 June 2014 Time: 9am – 5pm (Monday – Saturday) 11.30am – 5pm (Sunday) URL: http://www.stcanice.org.au/ www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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PARLIAMENT HOUSE of NSW Parliament of New South Wales joins forces with Head On Photo Festival to showcase Head On Landscape Finalists for 2014 Head On Photo Festival is proud to announce its partnership with the Parliament of New South Wales for the Head On Landscape Prize exhibition. Heading into its fifth year, Australia’s largest photo festival and the world’s second largest photo festival celebrates photography across all genres.

The finalists of the Landscape Prize, with the images depicting natural and urban environments, will be on display at the Parliament throughout the festival with the winners of the prize announced at the opening night on 16th May 2014.

In addition, the Parliament is introducing the NSW Parliament Landscape Photography Prize, which will be awarded to best photograph of a NSW landscape from among the finalists. Sponsored by Desane Group Holdings, this Prize will also be announced at the opening night.

The Parliament of New South Wales is Australia’s first and oldest Parliament. Its heritage precinct features a wonderful public exhibition space known as the Fountain Court, where the exhibition will be proudly displayed. Entry is free, and the Parliament encourages everyone to visit the historic Macquarie Street building and view these remarkable photographic works.

“This partnership with Head On Photo Festival means that the Parliament can once again host a photographic art prize that will showcase and provide an excellent opportunity for photographers to gain recognition for their work,” said the Hon Don Harwin MLC, President of the Legislative Council.

“The Parliament’s Fountain Court is a fantastic venue, and one that puts the works in square view of all who visit the precinct, including members of Parliament and the public.

We are pleased to be one of the signature venues for this year’s photo festival and we look forward to welcoming visitors to the exhibition,” said the Hon Shelley Hancock MP, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Parliament House Address: 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 th th Dates: 12 May – 8 June 2014 Time: 8:30am – 5:00pm Monday to Friday URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest/ https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/ !

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DANKS ST COMPLEX THE DEPOT GALLERY

Ludlites Love Light - Patrick Boland, Lucas Brown, Heleana Genaus, Steven Godbee, Osher Gunsberg, Tim Hixson, Gareth Jolly, Hykie Kwong, Peter Lang, Anika Luzemann, Anthony McGovern, Vanessa Power, Craig Prowdfoot, Brad Shaw, John Wallace and Yvette WarboysLudlities are lovers, in past exhibitions this collection of lo-fi photographers have loved water, fire, nature, music and Sydney.

For LUDLITES LOVE LIGHT, their 2014 Head On Festival exhibition, they focus their affections on the beautiful and magical thing that happens when light passes through the plastic lens of their cameras and strikes not an electronic sensor, but old school film.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: The Depot Gallery Address: 2 Danks Street, Waterloo NSW 2017 Dates: 13 May – 24 May 2014: Ludlites Time: 11am – 6pm Daily Tuesday to Saturday URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest/

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DANKS ST COMPLEX THE DEPOT II GALLERY

Image by Finalist Kaily Koutsogiannis

Mobile Phone Award Finalists – Various The inaugural mobile phone photo competition celebrates the use of new technology accessible to everyone. With thirty stunning images, this is a show to challenge the notion that only amazing images come out of big heavy cameras. Rapidly changing mobile phone technology enables everyone with a mobile phone camera to spontaneously capture moments or to apply the skills of a classically trained photo-artist. The Awards reflect the huge diversity of both photographers and images produced.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: The Depot II Gallery Address: 2 Danks Street, Waterloo NSW 2017 Dates: 14 May - 7 June 2014: Mobile Phone Award Finalists Time: 11am – 6pm (Tuesday – Saturday) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest/

DANKS ST COMPLEX BRENDA MAY GALLERY Multimedia Award Finalists – Various The inaugural Head On Multimedia Award is set to move photography from the silent era into a new world of sound and movement, a world where there are no rules and no hierarchy. Ten finalists didn’t disappoint with extraordinary short pieces composed of combinations of visual art, sound art, moving images or other media. Expect the unexpected whilst exploring mediums that sit outside the box of Still Photography and short films.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Brenda May Gallery Address: 2 Danks Street, Waterloo NSW 2017 Dates: 14 May - 7 June 2014: Multimedia Award Finalists Time: 11am – 6pm (Tuesday – Friday) 10am – 6pm (Saturday) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest/

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DANKS ST COMPLEX BRENDA MAY GALLERY

Irish Horse – James Horan ‘Irish horse’, is an unfamiliar view of Ireland. It documents horse culture in the inner city where Adidas and Nike clad teenagers, with no formal equestrian training, ride horses through the streets and keep their animals in homemade stables or on green areas in council housing estates. As well as Irish youth, the horse fairs are also important places for travellers, indigenous Irish gypsies, to trade and socialize. www.jameshoranshootspeople.com LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Brenda May Gallery Address: 2 Danks Street 2017 Waterloo, NSW, Australia Dates: 21 May – 14 June 2014 Time: 11am - 6pm (Tuesday – Friday) 10am – 6pm (Saturday) Closed Sunday and Monday.

URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest/

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THE ARTHOUSE HOTEL A L L T E R V A T N – Jarrad Seng A series of aerial photographs of Iceland’s volcanic rivers and lava wastelands. The images illustrate the unique geothermic landscapes of the country as viewed from beyond the clouds. The photographs appear more akin to abstract paintings, presenting an unconventional perspective on traditional landscape photography. Jarrad Seng is a twenty-six year old photographer based in Perth, Australia. His travels have taken him to the plains of the Serengeti, on the road with international musicians across Europe, and into the remote Pilbara outback. This is his second solo exhibition after Portraits of Tanzania (2011) and runs from the 5th until the 31st May 2014 http://www.jarradseng.com/

‘From Little Things’ - Rainbow Lorikeet Chick Progression Angela Robertson-Buchanan This series documents the feather and growth development of a wild rescued Rainbow Lorikeet who Angela raised from 10 days old through to its release at 10 weeks. Angela Robertson-Buchanan is an award winning photographer and dedicated wildlife rescuer specialising in birds. The exhibition is open from 12th May until 6th June 2014 http://www.angelarobertsonbuchanan.com/

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: The Arthouse Hotel Address: 275 Pitt Street 2000 Sydney, NSW Dates: 12 May – 6 June 2014 Time: 11am – late (Monday – Friday) 4pm – late (Saturday) URL: http://www.thearthousehotel.com.au www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest/!

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GAFFA CREATIVE PRECINCT Shane and Maggie: An Intimate Look at Domestic Violence – Sara Lewkowicz; presented by Alexia Foundation Domestic violence is largely an invisible crime. We usually only hear it muddled through walls, and we usually only see it manifested in the faded yellow and purple bruises of a woman who “walked into a wall” or “fell down the stairs.” It is rarely limited to one event, and it rarely stops. “Shane and Maggie”, seeks to portray domestic abuse as a process, as opposed to a single incident, examining how a pattern of abuse develops and eventually crests, as well as its short a –and long term – effects of victims, their families, and their abusers.” Excerpt from Sara’s winning proposal (2013 Alexia Student Grant). http://www.alexiafoundation.org/stories/SaraNaomiLewkowicz 14 May - 26 May 2014, 10am-6pm (Mon-Fri), 11am-5pm (Sat) Sunday and Public Holidays (Closed)

Nüwa Re Awakening – Tami Xiang Nüwa Re Awakening: This series reveals the women’s social position in the ancient closed and conservative Chinese history when male dominated the society. According to chinese legend , Nüwa is the goddess who created humans. When the Fire and Water Gods fought and broke the heaven Nüwa used stones with five colours to repair it and gave heaven a stable support by using the legs of a giant turtle. In ancient times, Nüwa was worshipped and females were respected and held in high regard as the nurturers of life.

As Chinese civilization evolved, the teachings of Confucius became predominant in Chinese culture and the status of females changed to one of control, Confucianism promoted the requirement for the female to be loyal to one man for the woman’s entire life and created systems to ensure male domination. For this series I chose to incorporate nude as one of the principle elements , it symbolizes the vulnerability and helplessness of females living in a society where control is paramount .The nude is also still a taboo subject in ancient conservative China and so it is also symbolic of my rebellion and rejection of the feudalism system of control. It’s a story of one woman, it also revealed millions of women’s fates in the controlled lives without freedom and rights in the ancient days.

14 May – 26 May 2014; 10am-6pm (Monday – Friday) 11am-5pm (Saturday) Sunday and Public Holidays (Closed) !

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GAFFA CREATIVE PRECINCT Personae – Pierre Dalpé ‘Personae’ questions the notion of ‘fixed’ identity and explores the idea that we, as individuals, potentially embody a multitude of personae – that identity is fluid, malleable, and not pre-determined. The Personae series involves a collaborative process where I allow my subjects to embody their alter egos through performing in an invented scenario or narrative within the proscenium arch of my camera frame. My intention with this work is to play with and subvert the aesthetics and traditions of documentary photography, as well as aspects of identity, gender, and performance – to coax viewers into believing false truths, leaving the viewer to question everything contained within the image.

Pierre Dalpé will be in Sydney from 13th May – 5th June for interviews.

14 May – 26 May 2014, 10am-6pm (Monday – Friday) 11am-5pm (Saturday) Sunday and Public Holidays (Closed) www.pierredalpe.com

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Butterflies Chapter 2 – Scott Typaldos ‘Butterflies’ is the second chapter of Scott Typaldos’ documentary on mental illness.

Before the Kosovo war (1998-1999) the "timlje psychiatric institute was financed by the Serbian government. After the power change, the new Albanian dominated government financially abandoned the place leaving the infrastructures in decay and the patients from minority ethnic groups without care.

The patients, who are for the most part severe psychotics, are left roaming in the institution’s walls and garden with limited hygienic or medical care. The building’s inside walls and sanitary conditions are dilapidated. The only fix constantly distributed are meals and cigarettes which patients regularly fight each other for. The camera was inserted in between the ever vague and fluctuating border separating sanity from insanity.

14 May – 26 May 2014, 10am-6pm (Monday – Friday) 11am-5pm (Saturday) Sunday and Public Holidays (Closed) http://socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Scott_Typaldos/2307 !

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GAFFA CREATIVE PRECINCT The Lost Boys Of Sudan – Chris Peken Some 20,000 boys fled their villages in South Sudan when government troops from the north systematically attacked their villages in the late 1980's during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005 with an estimated 2.5 million deaths).

It is estimated that as many as a third of them died due to starvation and dehydration, or at the hands of wild animal or enemy soldiers. Their epic journey over thousands of kilometres and three countries “ended” in 1992 when approximately 12,000 of them became the initial inhabitants of the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. In November of 2013 photographer Chris Peken travelled to Kakuma in search of these Lost Boys after hearing stories from the South Sudanese refugee population in Western Sydney. There he met with over forty of the original Lost Boys, and along with Ethiopian refugee journalist Qaabata Boru, documented their stories and created these portraits.

29 May - 9 June 2014, 10am-6pm (Monday–Friday) 11am-5pm (Saturday), Sunday & Public Hol (Closed)

Viver no Meio do Barulho (Living in the Middle of the Noise) – Nicola Dracoulis The title, Viver no Meio do Barulho (Living in the Middle of the Noise), comes from a song written by one of the subjects of this documentary project set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It describes growing up in a world as a young person trying to take charge of their own destiny amid the noise of gunshots and drums, in a world of poverty and inequality. In 2006, Nicola Dracoulis photographed nine young people across four favelas in Rio. Seven years on, she has reconnected with those same people to discover what their lives are like now. Like any group, each person has a different story, some with dramatic events in their journeys, some with more quiet rites of passage. While all eyes are on Brazil with the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, Nicola investigates the rumblings of social and economic change in Brazilian society through the worlds of people who are living through it. http://nicoladracoulis.photoshelter.com/ 29 May - 9 June 2014, 10am-6pm (Monday – Friday), 11am-5pm (Saturday) Sunday and Public Holidays (Closed)

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GAFFA CREATIVE PRECINCT Imagined Histories - Amber McCraig Using a combination of portraiture and still life elements, Amber McCaig recreates an exploration into the idea of identity and imagination. Her work provides an insight into what it is like to live our fantasies in everyday life. Laden with armour, treasure chests, maps and lore, these fantasies show the power of our imagination and what is possible if we dare to dream. http://ambermccaig.tumblr.com/ 29 May - 9 June 2014, 10am-6pm (Monday – Friday) 11am-5pm (Saturday) Sunday and Public Holidays (Closed)

Breeding Ground – Jasmine Poole Jasmine's practice explores a wide range of mediums, predominantly focusing on photomedia, video and installation. Her early work revolved around the possibility of the notion that nothing is ever as it seems. This stemmed from research into different emotional and scientific patterns of memory, and questioning and trying to comprehend the effect that memory recall has on our perceptions of self and place.

Her current work has shifted away from the memory process itself to actual narratives contained within memories. In doing so her work has taken on a very personal turn, becoming a process of storytelling. It aims to bring light to lost conversations, identities and voices that are otherwise unheard. http://www.jasminepoole.com.au/ 29 May - 9 June 2014, 10am-6pm (Monday – Friday) 11am-5pm (Saturday) Sunday and Public Holidays (Closed)

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Gaffa Creative Precinct Address: 281 Clarence St, Sydney CBD, NSW 2000 URL: http://gaffa.com.au/!www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest!

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CRYPT, ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL

Faith at Work – Oliver Strewe Over the last year, Oliver Strewe has traveled to Catholic workplaces to document the Church’s work today and the changing face of its ministries and people. In doing this, he has captured its diversity and the unique connection between the spiritual and the everyday world of work. For more than 200 years Catholic organisations have been part of the fabric of Australian society. They teach our children, care for the sick, create homes for the elderly and support the poor. The Church in Australia employs over 180,000 people who work as teachers and nurses, doctors and accountants, cleaners and cooks and a multitude of other vocations.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Crypt, St Mary’s Cathedral Address: St Mary’s Road, Sydney, NSW 2000 Dates: 17 May – 7 June 2014 Time: 10.30am – 4pm (Monday – Sunday) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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STANLEY STREET GALLERY

Boy Stories - Johan Willner In the series Boy Stories Johan Willner travels back in time, to a place where something happened, to a passing moment fixed and preserved in his consciousness. Johan explores what happened to the memory during the travel of time, how it has changed, what has been preserved and how much that has been added on or been removed.

Probing the question - is it for real or just an illusion? Boy Stories is created out of that kind of incomplete consideration, and is an investigation of the childhood memory in the presence, just as much as it is a depiction of life in the past. http://www.johanwillner.com/boy_stories.php

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Stanley Street Gallery Address: 1/52-54 Stanley Street, Darlinghurst Dates: 14 May – 7 June 2014 Time: 11am – 6pm (Wednesday – Saturday) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest/

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JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM

Photographs from the Police Forensic Archive (1912 – 1948) Curator Peter Doyle describes the exhibition as ʻan intimate, raw and hauntingly beautiful record of the mysterious people and dark places of a Sydney lostʼ. Focusing on the victims, perpetrators and vicinities of crime, the original City of Shadows introduced the world to the museumʼs extraordinary and compelling collection of police forensic photography dating from 1912 to 1948. You will meet thieves, breakers, receivers, magsmen, spielers, urgers, gingerers, false pretenders, hotel barbers, shoplifters, dope users, prostitutes, makers of false oaths and the occasional murderer. New research has solved many of the mysteries surrounding the people and places in these compelling photographs, and the stories that lurk behind the images – sometimes thrilling, sometimes mundane – can now be revealed. http://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/exhibitions/city-shadows

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Justice & Police Museum Address: Corner Albert and Phillip Streets Sydney 2000 Dates: 1 March – 31 October 2014 Time: 10am – 5pm (Weekends Only) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest/

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HEAD ON POP-UP PHOTO BOOTH – PITT ST MALL This year, Head On will feature a massive photo booth (a 20ft shipping container) in Pitt Street Mall. Members of the public can have their portraits taken by Head On exhibited photographers with random guest stints by world famous photographers such as Ben Lowy, Erica Diettes, Chris Rainier and more!

Each image will be become part of a living photo-wall installation. The installation will ultimately become Head On’s 10th Anniversary Head On Portrait collage. Members of public can have their five minutes of fame in central Sydney with the images taken also being available to purchase on site.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Pitt St Maill Address: 189 Pitt St. Mall (Adjacent to Adidas Store) Dates: 12 May – 8 June 2014 Time: 11am – 4pm URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest/!

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WORKSHOP: BENJAMIN LOWY 24 hours This May, award-winning photographer Benjamin Lowy will be leading a 24-hour workshop hosted in conjunction with Head On Photo Festival in Sydney. The workshop will run over a single 24-hour period on Saturday 17th May when Benjamin will host 6 x 3 hour sessions with ten photographers on a journey around Sydney.

Head On educational workshops are aimed at photographers who wish to challenge their visual understanding and explore their photography skills with a combination of shooting, mentoring and critiquing as per workshop schedule. Applicant’s can range from professional photographers breaking into cutting edge medium to amateur photographers wishing to pick up tricks of the trade. Benjamin Lowy will be leading each slot taking photo’s with the group whilst providing tuition and tips.

Participants will be encouraged to create images using mobile phone photography during the daytime slots (7-10am, 11-2pm, 3-6pm) and using DSLR’s during the night time slots (7-10pm, 11-2am, 3-6am).

The shooting locations will remain a mystery until the morning and evening of designated sessions however, the workshop aims to span across Sydney’s insider breadths. Iconic Sydney spots such as Bondi, The Harbour, the underbelly of Kings Cross and unique suburban communities are likely to be visited.

About Benjamin Lowy: Benjamin Lowy is award-winning photographer based in New York City. He received a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and began his career covering the Iraq War in 2003. Since then he has covered major stories worldwide. In 2004 Lowy attended the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass, he was named in Photo District News 30 and his images of Iraq were chosen by PDN as some of the most iconic of the 21st century. Lowy has received awards from World Press Photo, POYi, PDN, Communication Arts, American Photography, and the Society for Publication Design. Lowy has been a finalist for the Oskar Barnak Award, a finalist in Critical Mass, included in Magenta Flash Forward 2007, as well as the OSI Moving Walls 16 exhibit. His work from Iraq, Darfur, and Afghanistan have been collected into several gallery and museum shows, and shown at the Tate Modern, SF MOMA, Houston Center for Photography, Invalides, and Arles. His work from Darfur appeared in the SAVE DARFUR media campaign.

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PADDINGTON TOWN HALL OPENING NIGHT

Paddington Town Hall Opening Night Paddington Town Hall was built in the late 1800s and is located on Oxford Street next to the Victoria Barracks. This historical venue is the location for Head On Photo Festival’s Opening Night event and awards presentation for the 2014 Winners of the Head On Portrait, Landscape, Mobile, Multimedia and Best of Festival. Winners will be revealed on Friday 16th May from 6pm to 8pm with a slideshow of the finalists for each category.

2014 celebrates the 10th anniversary of the prestigious Head On Portrait Prize which encourages professional photographers and enthusiasts nationally to enter their work which is judged purely on the strength of the image portrayed rather than celebrity of the subject or photographer.

Returning for a second year is the popular Head On Landscape Prize and Mobile Phone Photography Award after the successful inauguration of these two categories in 2013.

Additionally, 2014 will see a new prize offered with a focus on Multimedia Technology.

This will allow for a diverse range of skills to be assessed in a genre that has seen incredible growth in both professional and amateur photography.

There will be a VIP preview at 4.30pm to 6pm at Paddington Reservoir which will be an invite only event for the finalists and selected guests to view their works. The Opening Night announcements will be made by Head On Photo Festival Director Moshe Rosenzveig and a special guests.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Paddington Town Hall Address: 249 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW 2021 Dates: 16 May 2014 Time: 6pm – 8pm URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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PADDINGTON RESERVOIR Head On Portrait Prize 2014 The Head On Portrait Prize is Australia’s most critically acclaimed photographic portrait competition and exhibition reflecting a vibrant diverse cross-section of new and traditional photographic practices. Each year three winners out of 40 finalists are awarded prizes.

The winners for 2014 will be announced at the official ceremony at Paddington Town Hall on 16th May from 6pm-8pm.

“Head On is really the only opportunity to see the best portraiture work the country has to offer” Good Weekend.

People on the Edge – Chris Rainier Chris Rainier, National Geographic Society Fellow & Photographer, takes us on a journey into cultures from all over the globe spanning the last 30 years through imagery captured across a variety of modern technology such as smart phones, cameras, computers, and video. This is not only to both preserve their quickly disappearing ancient traditions but also to incorporate traditional knowledge with cutting edge technology to find sustainable solutions for the pressing global issues of the 21st Century on old world cultures.

Travelling the planet for over thirty years, Rainier has been in a race against time - to document these communities struggling to save their traditional ways of living for future generations. Now, with the advent of technologically driven storytelling and social media, he focuses his energy on helping empowering indigenous cultures to gather around the “fireplace” of the web to tell on a global level, socially important stories for the survival of the planet - stories of what it means to be alive and human in the 21st Century.

Rainier co-directs the National Geographic Society's Cultural Ethnosphere Program as well as the All Roads Photography Program. He is a contributing editor for National Geographic Traveler magazine and is a contributing photographer for National Geographic Adventure magazine. He has won awards including the prestigious Lowell Thomas Award given by the Explorers Club for adventure stories. Rainier's work has been shown and collected by museums around the world, including the Australian Museum in Sydney, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the International Center of Photography in New York and the United Nations.

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i-Street – Benjamin Lowy This exhibition reflects Lowy’s view that the rise of mobile photography is not a threat to professional photography. Instead mobile phones free photographers from heavy machinery and enable greater intimacy with subjects. The result is stunningly original candid photography.

Benjamin Lowy is award-winning photographer based in New York City. He received a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and began his career covering the Iraq War in 2003. Since then he has covered major stories worldwide. In 2004 Lowy attended the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass, he was named in Photo District News 30 and his images of Iraq were chosen by PDN as some of the most iconic of the 21st century. Lowy has received awards from World Press Photo, POYi, PDN, Communication Arts, American Photography, and the Society for Publication Design. Lowy has been a finalist for the Oskar Barnak Award, a finalist in Critical Mass, included in Magenta Flash Forward 2007, as well as the OSI Moving Walls 16 exhibit. His work from Iraq, Darfur, and Afghanistan have been collected into several gallery and museum shows, and shown at the Tate Modern, SF MOMA, Houston Center for Photography, Invalides, and Arles. His work from Darfur appeared in the SAVE DARFUR media campaign.

Lowy was featured in Head On Photo Festival in 2013 showcasing his iAfghanistan exhibition at The State Library on Macquarie Street which brought an unprecedented amount of foot traffic through the venue.

Benjamin Lowy will be in Sydney from 15th – 22nd May for interviews.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Paddington Reservoir Address: 251-255 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW 2021 Dates: 17 May – 8 June 2014 Time: Daylight URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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EVENTS & WORKSHOPS AT THE APPLE STORE, SYDNEY iPhone Photography with Benjamin Lowy Benjamin Lowy is a celebrated photojournalist and iPhone photographer based in New York. There’s an Instagram filter named after him and his iPhone photos have graced the cover of TIME magazine. Join us in exploring some of Benjamin’s most powerful images — from Iraq and Afghanistan to Haiti and Darfur — and find out how he uses iPhone to create his amazing work.

Monday, 19 May at 6:00 pm Register for the event from Tuesday 6th May 2014 by visiting the link here: www.apple.com/au/sydney

BEN LOWY EXHIBITION AT THE APPLE STORE

iPhone Photography Showcase with Ben Lowy A selection of work by celebrated photojournalist and iPhone photographer Benjamin Lowy will be exhibited at the Apple Store, Sydney. Ben has travelled to some of the world's most remote locations and captured his surrounds using his iPhone to produce images that are both creative and candid.

Friday, 16 May to Thursday 23 May Apple Store, Sydney 367 George Street, NSW 2000 LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Apple Store Address: 367-373 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Dates: 19 May 2014 Time: Monday to Wednesday and Friday- Saturday 9am-8pm Thursday 9am – 9pm Sunday 10am-6pm URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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At Last – The Seventies! – Leon Gregory This exhibition is part of a larger collection of images randomly taken in the inner Sydney area between 1970-1973. Precincts covered include Kings Cross, Darlinghurst, Woolloomooloo, The Domain, the City, Glebe and Balmain. The works graphically illustrate the forty-year transformation of the city and its demography. Shown here are ordinary people going about their daily lives - traditional street documentary subjects. By combining strong composition with familiar narrative themes, Leon Gregory examines the quirky, funny and sometimes touching moments that are woven into the tapestry of people's everyday lives.

The collection has not previously been exhibited. The original negatives of these works have only recently been recovered and digitized. Many of these images are to be acquired for the permanent collection of the State Library of NSW. LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Ginkgo Gallery Address: 166 St. Johns Road, Glebe NSW 2037 Dates: 24 May – 13 June 2014 Time: 9am – 5pm (Tuesday – Friday) 10am – 2pm (Saturday) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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M CONTEMPORARY

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Future Memories presented by Michael Reid – Catherine Nelson Catherine Nelson creates immersive landscapes, rich with detail and an in-tune understanding of 'place'. Each piece is a meticulous reconstruction of a highly specific site, well-known to the artist, in various permutations of time, seasonal changes and weather.

Catherine painstakingly merges hundreds of images to create these fully realised worlds.

By capturing the specific light, flora and scale of each site Catherine is able to develop planetary wholes with unique personalities. The works re-create the sublime effect of being fully immersed in nature, highlighting the ability of landscape (and the memory of landscape) to affect both mood and emotion.

“When I embraced the medium of photography, I felt that taking a picture that represented only what was within the frame of the lens wasn't expressing my personal and inner experience of the world around me. With the eye and training of a painter and with years of experience behind me in film visual effects, I began to take my photographs to another level.” – Catherine Nelson LISTING INFORMATION Venue: M Contemporary Address: 37 Ocean Street, Woollahra NSW 2025 Dates: 20 May – 8 June 2014 Time: 10am – 5pm (Tuesday – Saturday) 11am – 4pm (Sunday – Monday) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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M CONTEMPORARY

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The Genesis Project - Group Show of 22 photographers including Roger Ballen, Chris Rainier, Murray Fredericks, Phil Hillyard, Fiona Wolf and Jackie Ranken The exhibition aims to explore at what point do photographers become photographers.

What were the catalysts that transformed a child, teen or young adult into a professional photographer? What was the moment when through creating an image the child, teen or young adult realised "this is what I want to do - to make photographs, become a photographer and ! to capture life’s moments”.

In this show exhibited at M Contemporary which has been curated by Moshe Rosenzveig & Brian Cassey, 22 prominent photographers have delved into their archives from childhood and from later years to find the image they first thought “that’s it” etc. - and more. Each photographer will exhibit their seminal image together with an image for which they are renowned.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: M Contemporary Address: 37 Ocean Street, Woollahra NSW 2025 Dates: 20 May – 8 June 2014 Time: 10am – 5pm (Tuesday – Saturday) 11am – 4pm (Sunday – Monday) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL HUB

Rosebud – Hugh Hamilton “This hat was one of my first magician's props, a collapsible top hat. When I bought it, it was probably twenty years old, and I got it in 1955 or 1956 and it still operates. It’s a collapsible!” – Steve Martin.

In Citizen Kane a journalist attempts to uncover the meaning of the media tycoon’s last word before dying, "rosebud". It turns out to be Kane’s childhood sled. All of us have meaningful objects we carry through our lives, objects that tell a story about who we are and who we aspire to be, objects that mean little to anyone else but signify the world to us.

Los Angeles-based Australian photographer Hugh Hamilton brings to the Sydney Film Festival a series of striking portraits of such objects, along with their owners – a gallery of the brightest talents of the film world. From Steve Martin’s collapsible top hat to Anthony LaPaglia’s first professional football jersey, the Rosebud exhibition takes us into the private lives of cinema’s great actors and storytellers.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Sydney Film Festival Hub Address: Lower Town Hall, corner Druitt St & George St, Sydney NSW 2000 Dates: 6 June – 15 June 2014 Time: 5pm – 12am (weekdays) 12pm – 12am (weekends & public holidays) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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BONDI PAVILLION

Memoria - The Mnemonics: Giulia Macario, George Politis, Maria Flourou, Kaily Koutsogiannis The mnemonics are an Australian photography ensemble with members based in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney and are more than just a southern tale girt by sea.

The members of the mnemonics comprise Jason Flett, Maria Flourou, Kaily Koutsogiannis, Giulia Macario and George Politis who joined creative forces in 2013 to develop from individuals connected via virtual platforms with a love of storytelling as a common thread.

With a united idea to share and showcase each member’s unique artistic vision both nationally and internationally, the mnemonics inspire each other and continually expand their story-telling abilities evolving through digital / photographic medium.

Inspired by the offspring of their matriarchal muse, Mnemosyne, the mnemonics’ aesthetic is based on the foundations and principles of traditional photography! a modern dance to a classic tune. ‘Memoria' A collection of work by four of the five artists (Jason Flett’s work is not in the show) that explores the idea of memory and how visual media such as photography aids, influences and changes our perception of our own personal narrative. In the past, memories have often been formed and retained through family albums, holiday snaps, letters from loved ones that have been stored in drawers brought out once a year as a reminder ! fragments of our past relived in partial or blurred images. The artists were inspired to fill the void, giving the memory a level of creativity! a chance to rewrite the narrative, perhaps! using the very same medium that aids in retaining memories.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Bondi Pavillion Gallery Address: Queen Elizabeth Drive, Bondi Beach NSW 2026 Dates: 14 May – 1 June 2014 Time: 10am – 5pm (Monday to Sunday) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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HE MADE SHE MADE GALLERY

Nobody Claps Anymore – Alec Dawson An amalgamation of hundreds of tons of metal, carrying hundreds of passengers, silently flares momentarily before the tires collide with the runway. The nose of the plane heaves forward. The reverse thrusters roar and rapidly decelerate the plane. As the plane turns off the runway onto the taxi-way the individual joints in the pavement are perceptible as the plane lumbers to the gate. Eventually the plane parks and you hear the sounds of belt buckles, zippers, and the rustling of bags. Except for the banal perfunctory words by the stewardess, it all happens in silence. Not a word uttered. No applause. The audience had forgotten to clap.

"Nobody Claps Anymore" is a cinematic tableau vivant series by Alec Dawson depicting the real life traumas of regret, isolation, anxiety, depression that are unfortunately commonplace. Taken in the real abodes of the participant’s, the photos cinematically depict the hyper reality of the quiet moments of their lives.

“My photographic works are about internal emotional dramas which often reveal themselves in quiet solitary moments in people’s homes. I use cinematic lighting to dramatise these moments.”

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: He Made She Made Gallery Address: 70 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010 Dates: 6 May – 24 May 2014 Time: 10am – 6pm (Monday to Sunday) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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X88 GALLERY Transient Realities – Chris Round This series of images are a dialogue between the Chris Round and the locations he has visited. Due to a combination of different natural and man-made elements, at the time of his visit, he discovers an unfamiliar air about them - these places were not how he imagined. In discovering this he realized these new and transient realities contrasted with his recollection, his imagination. Round’s relationship with these environments had fundamentally changed.

“I’ve been tempted to question the validity of the pictures, defining them as fictional, though of course by definition they are not. Consequently perhaps this raises questions about our increasingly insecure relationship with our surroundings, how we’re becoming disorientated in the modern world; how each reality we experience is replaced by a new and unexpected one.” – Chris Round.

Kiribati A line in the Sand – Mike Bowers This exhibition is about this physically beautiful and flawed paradise. The Central Pacific island Nation of Kiribati consists of 32 coral atolls and one raised limestone island with an average height-above-sea-level of only two metres. The islands are stretched across two million square miles of ocean. Kiribati is on the front line of Climate Change, locals battle against the seas with storm surges and high tides eroding precious living space and contaminating the delicate fresh water lens that is beneath each atoll. Kiribati has the highest infant mortality rate in the region with 35 babies in every 1000 dying before their first year of life this is more than five times that of Australia. Kiribati's President Anote Tong believes his country has between 30 to 60 years before it is uninhabitable because of inundation and contamination of its fresh-water supply, he has called on countries in the region to open its borders to his people.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: X88 Gallery Address: 88 Abercrombie Street, Chippendale, NSW 2008 Dates: Chris Round 14 – 24 May and Mike Bowers 27 May – 17 June 2014 Time: Wednesday – Friday 11am – 6pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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DAMIEN MINTON GALLERY

IN CONVERSATION A Mother and Daughter – Olive Cotton & Sally McInerney ARTHERE presents IN CONVERSATION A Mother and Daughter - What do we inherit from our parents? There are multiple shared experiences including our emotions, our aesthetic and our favourite light, places and subject matter. Olive Cotton is one of the most celebrated early women photographers in Australia. She was a peer of Max Dupain and ran his studio during the war years. Sally McInerney, her daughter, has followed the photographic path in her footsteps. In this exhibition we explore the influences, conversations, shared aesthetics and the country places loved by both mother and daughter.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Damien Minton Gallery Address: 583 Elizabeth Street, Redfern NSW 2016 Dates: 13 May – 24 May 2014 Time: 11am – 6pm (Wednesday – Saturday) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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NG POP UP ART GALLERY

Chinese Marilyn – Jing Zhao Jing Zhao was fascinated by the number of images made of Marilyn and how many of these have become iconic. Most pictures of Marilyn’s were completely set up for posters and movie magazines. Marilyn didn’t want people to see photos of her without make-up, fashion clothes and a suitable expression. Jing believes this simple act of rejecting what was natural and choosing what Marilyn believed people wanted to see is an excellent metaphor for how she lived her life and of how the world currently engages with celebrities.

“I thought about how I could comment on this global infatuation with glamour and felt that I could rework a selection of original Marilyn images. I used the recognizable blonde hair and makeup but photographed girls with different skin colors to indicate the universal interest in her life. I have used the concept of simulacrum to recreate four of Marilyn’s pictures.

Although my subject characters are naked, I did not shoot them to be idealized women.

Rather, I have photographed the female body together with wrinkles and fat, striving to reveal the charismatic personality and the inner world of the characters behind the body. I think the significance of my work is a statement of the phenomenon of ‘Artificial Creation’, which appealing to people to be their natural selves, not necessary to be packaging to pretend to be someone else, because the most profound beauty is always associated with authenticity.”

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: NG Pop Up Art Gallery Address: Ground Floor, Central Park on Broadway, Broadway Dates: 27 May – 14 June 2014 Time: 12pm – 4pm (Tuesday – Saturday) URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE

Dante’s Inferno – Valentina Vannicola Valentina Vannicola’s photographic research is focused on transposing a work of literature to a picture. While working on the text, she sets out a sort of tableaux vivant. The characters of her shoots are non-professional actors from Tolfa, her hometown (a small town north of Rome), who act in the natural, country setting she has chosen to represent her imaginary world.

In Dante’s Inferno (2011), which consists of 15 photographs and a preparatory sketch, Vannicola inspired by the Alighieri masterpiece, unites her disposition towards her native land. With the active participation of its local community who come rain or shine, lend their presence to some of her most extravagant tableaux, Vannicola has set up surrealistic scenes recreating Dante’s journey through the strata of hell. While the outcome could easily have been predictable and illustrative, the mise-en-scène of landscape, objects, and untrained actors suggests rituals both playful and tragic.

LISTING INFORMATION Venue: Istituto Italiano di Cultura Address: Level 4, 125 York Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 Dates: 16 May – 6 June 2014 Time: Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm URL: www.headon.com.au/ www.facebook.com/HeadOnPhotoFest

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