Sydney's very own Head On Festival will broaden its international audience later this month when it shows off the best entries from the 2014 Portrait Prize at major photo festivals in the US and China.
Following on from the international debut of the Head On Portrait Prize at the Auckland Festival of Photography in June 2014, the exhibition will be shown in Shanxi, China, from September 19 to 26 as part of the Pingyao International Photo Festival, and in New York from September 18 to 28 as part of Brooklyn's annual Photoville Festival.
"I am thrilled and very proud Head On was invited to these important international photographic festivals. It is such a fantastic opportunity to expose great Australian talent to new audiences overseas. To be invited reflects not only the quality of work produced by Australian photographers, but the quality of a festival like Head On," says Moshe Rosenzveig, Founder and Director of Head On Photo Festival.
If you missed Head On's exhibition of 40 portrait prize finalists earlier in the year, an encore exhibition begins next week at the Paddington Reservoir Gardens in Sydney and runs from 17 September to 20 October as part of the 2014 City of Sydney Art & About Festival.
More info: www.headon.com.au
'Gurrumul.' Photo by Nicholas Walker. Finalist 2014 Head On Portrait Prize. 'There is haunting purity in Gurrumul’s voice and nothing on Earth like it. There was an ease, and calm, vulnerability, truth and fortitude that I learned from taking Gurrumul’s picture. It’s something I have never experienced before and which I am very grateful for.'
'Sunbaker II.' Photo by Tom Jefferson. Finalist 2014 Head On Portrait Prize.