Head On Photo Festival 2013 officially kicked off in grand style last Friday night. Check out what's on over the next week.
SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEK
Thursday 23 May
Pool Grant Award $10,000
Where: Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern, 7.30pm
Friday 24 May
Join Magnum Photographers Chris Steele-Perkins, Eli Reed, Ian Berry and their Sydney Workshop Graduates at a screening of their work.
Where: Turner Hall, TAFE Sydney Institute, Ultimo, 8pm
Beyond a Thousand Words-screening by University of Sydney Students and Alumni
Where: Verge Gallery, University of Sydney, 7pm
Artist Talk-Mike Read (2012 recipient of the $10,000 Pool Grant) speaks about his project The Way
Where: Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern
Saturday 25 May
Magnum Photographer Eli Reed gallery talk through Magnum on Set
Where: State Library of NSW, Sydney, 2pm
Plastic Camera Seascape Workshop presented by Tim Hixson
Where: Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach, 11am
Alternative Photography Workshop presented by Alex Cyreszko
Where: Blacktown Arts Centre, 11am
Pool Photographers offer Folio Reviews
Where: Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern
Monday 27 May
The Raven's Journey - Tarot Card Exhibition and Live Show
Where: Colombian Hotel (Upstairs), Darlinghurst, 7.30pm
Tuesday 28 May
Nikon Walkley Photographers' Slide Night
Where: State Library of NSW, Sydney, 6pm
FEATURED EXHIBITIONS
Opening Wednesday 22 May
Customs House (Library, Level 2), 7pm
• Melissa Cacciola https://headon.com.au/event/war-and-peace
• Kourtney Roy https://headon.com.au/event/auto-myths
Fisher Library, University of Sydney, 6pm
Sharon Zwi
https://headon.com.au/event/time-exposures-60-life-portraits
Queen Street Gallery, 6pm
Jonathan May
https://headon.com.au/event/awake
Opening Thursday 23 May
China Heights Gallery, 6pm
XRay Doll
https://headon.com.au/event/shards-glitter-0
Damien Minton Gallery, 7.30pm
Mike Read
https://headon.com.au/event/way
Stills Gallery, 6pm
Doug Rickard + Tim Hetherington
https://headon.com.au/event/new-yorks-yossi-milo-gallery
Opening Tuesday 28 May
Depot Gallery, 5.30pm
Jackie Dean
https://headon.com.au/event/translucence
Depot II Gallery, 6pm
Emma Phillips, Julie Sundberg, Anna Warr, Fiona Wolf, Jennifer Blau and Sam Heydt
https://headon.com.au/event/see-more-janes
Queen Street Gallery, 6pm
Roger Ballen, Barbara Wildenboer, Alistair Whitton, Brent Meistre, Gary Van Wyk, Melanie Cleary
https://headon.com.au/event/exposed-contemporary-south-african-photographers
Featured Exhibitions Opening This Week
Artsite
Sydney Studio Photographers of the first half of the 20th century
https://headon.com.au/event/camera-images-first-half-twentieth-century
Westfield Bondi Junction
Indigenous women photographers from La Perouse
https://headon.com.au/event/underexposed
Martin Place (Billboards)
Dara Kretschmer
https://headon.com.au/event/liminal
Wedge Gallery at Books Kinokuniya
Steve Marshall
https://headon.com.au/event/city-street
Featured Exhibitions Closing this Week
MOP Projects, Chippendale
Dean Tirkot
https://headon.com.au/event/curtain
Powerhouse Museum, Darling Harbour
Access to Life featuring Magnum Photographers including Eli Reed and Chris Steele-Perkins
https://headon.com.au/event/access-life
Global Gallery, Paddington
• Brett Ramsay https://headon.com.au/event/leisurescapes
• Jimmy Pozarik https://headon.com.au/event/year-life-sydney-childrens-hospital
• Phil Klaunzer https://headon.com.au/event/mungo
• Tom Goldner https://headon.com.au/event/photo-freedom-volta
• Vlad Sokhin https://headon.com.au/event/crying-meri
• Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern - Pool Collective https://headon.com.au/event/private-view
Gaffa Creative Precinct, Sydney
• Alice Blanch https://headon.com.au/event/box-brownie-colour-panoramas
• Anna Pogossova https://headon.com.au/event/h
• Kurt Sorensen / Koji Makino https://headon.com.au/event/seascapes
• Marvi Lacar https://headon.com.au/event/love-story
• Depot Gallery, Waterloo - Michael Cook https://headon.com.au/event/hear-no-see-nospeak-no
Depot II Gallery, Waterloo
Add On
https://headon.com.au/event/add-2013
FEATURED EXHIBITIONS NOW SHOWING
Delmar Gallery, Ashfield
Ghosting Machine
https://headon.com.au/event/ghosting-machine
Bondi Pavilion (Atrium), Bondi Beach
Darren Jew
https://headon.com.au/event/liquid-light
Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Bondi Beach
The Ludlites
https://headon.com.au/event/ludlites-love-music
Centennial Park, Parkes Dr. adjacent to Sir Henry Parkes Statue
• Angela Robertson-Buchanan
https://headon.com.au/event/macro-wildlife
• Holli Holitzer
https://headon.com.au/event/its-dogs-life
Centennial Park, Superintendents Residence
Backyard (Mobile Phone Photography)
https://headon.com.au/event/backyard
McLemoi Gallery, Chippendale
Tyler Shields
https://headon.com.au/event/suspense
Australian National Maritime Museum
Elysium Antarctic Visual Epic
https://headon.com.au/event/elysium-antarctic-visual-epic
Frances Keevil Gallery, Double Bay
Emma Hack
https://headon.com.au/event/treasured-tiles-blue-and-white
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, East Sydney
Claudia Terstappen
https://headon.com.au/event/expressions-devotion-0
Stanley Street Gallery, East Sydney
Paul Blackmore
https://headon.com.au/event/new-beirut
Ginkgo Gallery, Glebe
Sally McInerney
https://headon.com.au/event/signs-human-life
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
Marian Drew
https://headon.com.au/event/ornamental-royal-national-park
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
• John Ogden
https://headon.com.au/event/john-ogden-slightly-dangerous-1
• Chuck Bradley
https://headon.com.au/event/nostalgica
MiCK, Paddington
• Rina Vukobratovic
https://headon.com.au/event/girl-who-sees-lyrics
• Hugh Stewart
https://headon.com.au/event/still-life
Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Paddington
• Andrew Quilty https://headon.com.au/event/australian-artists-portraits
• Ingvar Kenne https://headon.com.au/event/citizen
• Roberto Duran https://headon.com.au/event/new-life
• William Yang https://headon.com.au/event/my-generation-0
Paddington Reservoir Gardens
Head Off Landscape Prize
https://headon.com.au/event/head-landscape-prize
Redfern Community Centre
Barbara McGrady
https://headon.com.au/event/visions-black-white-images-indigenous-australia
Alliance Francaise de Sydney, Sydney
Gilbert Bel-Bachir
https://headon.com.au/event/looking-through-glass
Museum of Sydney, Sydney
Mine Konkci
https://headon.com.au/event/convict-family
Pop Up in Martin Place, Sydney
Pop In to Head On
State Library of NSW, Sydney
• Head On Portrait Prize https://headon.com.au/event/head-portrait-prize-1
• Magnum on Set https://headon.com.au/event/magnum-set-iconic-hollywood-stars
• Benjamin Lowy https://headon.com.au/event/iafghanistan
• Belinda Mason https://headon.com.au/event/black-white
• Sydney Street Photographers https://headon.com.au/event/street
• Head On Momento Pro Photobok of the Year Awards https://headon.com.au/content/head-momento-photobook-awards
The Muse, TAFE Sydney Institute, Ultimo
• Alexandra Demenkova https://headon.com.au/event/fragile-land
• Anton Kuster https://headon.com.au/event/yakuza
• Jagath Dheerasekara https://headon.com.au/event/outskirts-australian-dream
• Laura Moore https://headon.com.au/event/hereinbefore-animations-1-9
• Liron Shimoni https://headon.com.au/event/white-shadows
- Loic Molon https://headon.com.au/event/correspondence
- Michael Coyne https://headon.com.au/event/new-guinea-mobile
- Scott Typaldos https://headon.com.au/event/waxed-black
- Shahidul Alam https://headon.com.au/event/crossfire
• Tracie Williams https://headon.com.au/event/beauty
• Captured 2013 https://headon.com.au/event/captured-2013
ASSOCIATED EXHIBITIONS
Opening Wednesday 22 May
Gallery Mercure, The Mercure Sydney, Potts Point, 6.30pm
Naked Lens
https://headon.com.au/event/naked-lens
Sydney College of the Arts, Auditorium Gallery, Rozelle, 6pm
Josh Wodak
https://headon.com.au/event/facing-futures-free-fear
The Rocks Discovery Museum, 10.30am
Kaleesha Morris
https://headon.com.au/event/ngarraanga-nginundi-yuludara-remember-your-dreaming
Opening Thursday 23 May
At the Vanishing Point, Newtown, 6pm
• Collectivism
https://headon.com.au/event/do-you-dream-colour
• Krystal Seigerman
https://headon.com.au/content/everything-must-go
Pop Up Gallery, Londonderry, 10am
You Me & All Of Us
https://headon.com.au/event/you-me-all-us
Tali Gallery, Rozelle, 6pm
Wayne Quilliam
https://headon.com.au/event/tali-gallery-work-art
Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, 6pm
Hornsby TAFE Students
https://headon.com.au/event/portrait-hornsby
Opening Friday 24 May
Archetype Gallery (Chauvel Cinema), Paddington, 6pm
Julie White
https://headon.com.au/event/souks-streets-marrakech-morocco
Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt, 6pm
• The Dog Show
https://headon.com.au/event/dog-show
• Yvette Hamilton
https://headon.com.au/content/loved-one-sleeping
Etienne Cohen Art, Paddington, 6pm
Gregor Murton & Matt Zonca
https://headon.com.au/content/earthskyabstraction
Gallery Red, Glebe, 6pm
Shutter Speed
https://headon.com.au/event/shutter-speed
MILS Gallery, Surry Hills, 6pm
Vladimir Kravchenko
https://headon.com.au/event/baikal-unintentional-offerings
Trapezium Gallery, Block P, NADC TAFE NSW,WSI, Kingswood
Visual Arts Students
https://headon.com.au/event/speed-light
Opening Saturday 25 May
ArtHere Exhibition Space, Redfern, 2pm
Suellen Symons
https://headon.com.au/event/polarity-portraits-and-panoramas
Opening Tuesday 28 May
Kings Cross Library, 5pm
Glenn Lockitch
https://headon.com.au/event/antarctic-whale-warriors
Opening This Week
NG Art Pop Up Gallery, Broadway
Patricia Casey
https://headon.com.au/event/looking-backwards-gazing-forwards
Brenda May Annex, Waterloo
Catherine Cloran
https://headon.com.au/event/float-strange-sky
Closing This Week
PACT Centre for emerging artists, Erskineville
Matthew Duchesne
https://headon.com.au/event/pact-passion-whimsy
Gallery Red, Glebe
Rachael Ireland
https://headon.com.au/content/intimate-dimension
107 Projects, Redfern
• Beyond the Boat
https://headon.com.au/event/beyond-boat
• David Jo Bradley
https://headon.com.au/event/straight-lines-photographic-case-study-cape-range-bioregion-northwest-australia
• Natalie Jeffcott
https://headon.com.au/event/holiday-road
ArtHere Exhibition Space, Redfern
Marnya Rothe & Maya Kolega
https://headon.com.au/event/women-uniform-marnya-rothe-mask-maya-kolega-1
Brenda May Gallery, Waterloo
• James Guppy
https://headon.com.au/event/mudworks
• Nicole Welch
https://headon.com.au/event/illumination
Studio 19 - Exposure Arts and Media, Wollongong
Nina Kourea, John Corker, Morgan Lewis, David Gale
https://headon.com.au/event/pact-passion-whimsy
ASSOCIATED EXHIBITIONS NOW SHOWING
Blanco Negro, Alexandria
Michael Magee
https://headon.com.au/event/over-line
Sun Studios Australia, Alexandria
Paul Westlake
https://headon.com.au/event/ambition-resignation-alienation
Balmain Library
Carol D'Amici
https://headon.com.au/event/blooming-wild
The Blue Mountains Heritage Centre
Dilshara Hill, Wendy Watson, Fiona Huddleston, Louise Bishop
https://headon.com.au/event/my-place
Blacktown Arts Centre
Alex Cyreszko, Abdulla M. I. Syed https://headon.com.au/event/some-other-place
Cafe Giulia, Chippendale
Tom Le Her https://headon.com.au/event/pursuit-mans-forgotten-dreams
DNA Projects | Contemporary Art, Chippendale
Group show curated by Eric Bridgeman and Willy Bernadoff
https://headon.com.au/event/dotgif
Galerie Pompom, Chippendale
Emma Thomson
https://headon.com.au/event/take-your-best-shot
Robin Gibson Gallery, Darlinghurst
Oliver Hopes
https://headon.com.au/event/drains-2
Kings Cross Library
• Faye York https://headon.com.au/event/l-ultimo-giorno-ultimate-journey-italy
• Kent Johnson https://headon.com.au/event/portraits-street-fashion-sydney
Art Est. Art School and Gallery, Leichhardt
Conor Ashleigh
https://headon.com.au/event/timor-leste-moving-forward-looking-back
belli bar, Leichhardt
Christine Bernasconi
https://headon.com.au/event/bella-italia
Manly Library
Andrew Paranavitana https://headon.com.au/event/lensbaby-dreamscapes
Studio 1A Sydney, Marrickville
Christopher Getts & Pania Newport https://headon.com.au/event/object-contemporary-wet-plate-collodion-portraiture
Think Negative – Analogue Photographic Arts, Marrickville
Enrico Scotece
https://headon.com.au/event/box-light
Galleryeight, The Rocks
Heidi Romano, Annalee Fortunado & Shana Rossiter
https://headon.com.au/event/stillness-1
Mosman Art Gallery, The Cube Gallery
Justin Harvey
https://headon.com.au/event/time-lines
Maynard's cafe, Ramn Bar (upstairs) & Apt Vegan cafe, Newtown
Gavin Roberts
https://headon.com.au/event/street-art-inner-city
Newtown Library
Tracy Ponich
https://headon.com.au/event/its-spring-look-closely-0
Ampersand Cafe & Bookstore, Paddington
David Landgren
https://headon.com.au/event/thru-plastic-lens
Arts Bar (adj to Arts Hotel), Paddington
Colin Husband
https://headon.com.au/event/colin-husband-arts-hotel
Penrith Library, Lower lounge area (outside Theatrette)
Luciano Vranich
https://headon.com.au/event/journeys-my-mother
The University of Western Sydney Art Gallery, Building AD
Enrico Scotece, Tony Sillavan, Pat Sweet, Paul Dorahy, Klaus Major and Deb Coogan
https://headon.com.au/event/arid-abstract
National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, Redfern
9 Young Indigenous Photographers
https://headon.com.au/event/photolines
Sara Roney Gallery, Rushcutters Bay
Cade Turner
https://headon.com.au/event/sara-roney-gallery
INDE Artspace, Surry Hills
Reiner Spliedt
https://headon.com.au/content/bluescapes
Surry Hills Public Library
• Andrea Zubani https://headon.com.au/event/mono-and-chrome
• Louise M Cooper https://headon.com.au/event/sydney-symmetry
The ArtHouse Hotel, Sydney
• Warren Wilson https://headon.com.au/event/tembo
• Su Garfinkle https://headon.com.au/event/out-ordinary
• Christian Mushenko https://headon.com.au/event/longing
Charing Cross Photo, Waverley
Ken Lipworth & George Fracchia
https://headon.com.au/event/odyssey-landscapes