#headonfestival

[rajsuri]

Simply...keep walking | Stanmore, Sydney, July 2018 | photo @rajsuri #rajsuriaustralia #ILoveSydney | #bw #photographer #street #stories #film #cinematic #actor #character #pov #rajsuri #light #shadow #composition #frame #Australia #video #story #script #lensculture #headonfestival #streetphotography

[rajsuri]

Simply...keep walking | Stanmore, Sydney, July 2018 | photo @rajsuri #rajsuriaustralia #ILoveSydney | #bw #photographer #street #stories #film #cinematic #actor #character #pov #rajsuri #light #shadow #composition #frame #Australia #video #story #script #lensculture #headonfestival #streetphotography

[grubgrob]

Working @headonfestival #headonfestival fun night serving the peoples of Head-on. What a great night. I was wearing my cap and it drew a few riders out. ... Found this guy who says do I know #lopezlopez @dankouriah ... He had a nice painted #concorde. Feel the love Danoz. #lopezdynasty @filofranchibro @italianbarsyd #pizzalab (at UNSW Art & Design)

[pixbymonique]

Head On 2017 Paddington #headonfestival #sydney #headon2017 #moniqueharmerphotography #commercialphotographer

[roboz8]

Burlesque Girls by @jessicamatino Matino, part of head on festival #pictureoftheday #bestoftheday #newtown #headonfestival #australia #iphone6s (at Alpha House Artist Co Operative Erskineville)

[iphoggy-bloggy]

Review of my photography year

This is going to be a self-indulgent blog, OK? I'm allowed one or two aren't I? After all, I'm not writing it for anyone else. Which is something I did in 2014 for FLTR, the subscription-only mobile photography magazine launched early in 2014 by the British Journal of Photography, but which folded in October. I saw three editors come and go in that time and I wrote about 20 articles for the weekly magazine. It was slightly worrying there wasn't enough interest in mobile photography as a genre in its own right for it to survive. I'm still writing for another commercial blog, Focal Press's Mastering Photo, about both mobile and big-camera photography. (And I am very pleased to say my piece there on how to get on the Instagram suggested user list still out-googles Instagram's official guildelines!) And for me too, this year has, to some extent, been about a transition from mobile to big-camera. A lot of the photos posted on my Instagram feed are now big-camera. To some extent that's simply a question of just having a big camera in my hand more often these days. But it's also because I've developed my big-camera skills more and have started to realise its potential. I got lucky with awards in 2014. Early in the year I won the Terry O'Neil's inaugural mobile category prize, I got four honourable mentions in the MPAs and then in the summer I won EyeEm's Environmentalist Prize. To return to the mobile/big-camera theme, while the Terry O'Neil Award is a big-camera prize that is embracing mobile, the EyeEm is going in the opposite direction. It comes from a mobile background but the awards were open to any type of photography. With my own big camera, I picked up second prize in the festival category of NME's annual photography awards. Also with my big camera, my agency sales picked up and I received some great feature commissions, though ironically they mainly came through some of my mobile photography connections. I also shot my first wedding, a really great experience and one I'd definitely love to repeat next year. I did less mobile photography teaching during the year and it's so intensive I won't be prioritising it in 2015. I helped curate a mobile-only exhibition for Click London in the year and in 2015 I will be curating a Mobile Retrospective show featuring some of the world's leading mobile photographers over the past few years. The show has a slot at the Headon Photography Festival in Sydney in May, and I hope it will be appearing in other photography festivals around the world too. As you may have guessed from this blog, it comes at a time when I think the genre itself - and for me personally - is repositioning itself within photography, so it promises to be an interesting project. So 2014 was a photographically good year for me personally. I hope it was for you too. And here's wishing all iphoggy-bloggy readers good light in 2015!

What lies down the tracks?

[elizakinchington]

Ladies and Gentlemen! We have an exhibition!!!!!!!!!!!! :D #arte xhibition #art #fineart #photography #headon #headonfestival #exhibition #sydney #hornsby

[inde-news-blog]

BLUESCAPES EXHIBITION

Saturday, 18 May to Sunday, 2 June

A fresh and less-nostalgic photographic exposé of Sydney’s disappearing industrial heritage, by emerging photographer Reiner Spliedt.

The striking steel-blues and deep black hues of Reiner’s dramatic images reference the blueprints engineers used to dream-up these giant structures, and the silent stillness that now envelops them.

“I photographed this series of industrial sites, including White Bay Power Station and Cockatoo Island, Sydney, with the memory of working in a foundry still clear in my mind. Compelled to create rough, cold, harsh images, I felt I was being truer to the nature of these sites than the soft sepia toned pictures in history books,” says Reiner.

For an unconventional look at historic Sydney, don’t miss this show, presented in association with the 2013 Head On Festival.