Head On Photo Festival 2024

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Dates: 8 Nov–1 Dec 2024

Head On Photo Festival 2024 returns this November to transform Sydney into a photography paradise with major exhibitions at Bondi Pavilion Gallery and outdoors in Paddington and Bondi Beach.

Every year since 2010, Head On Photo Festival offers an incredible opportunity to experience the artistry of emerging and established Australian and international photographers. It’s a wonderful chance to delve deeper into the world through photography and connect with fellow photography enthusiasts.

Key dates:

8 Nov: Festival launch party & announcement of Photo Awards winners
9-10 Nov: Opening weekend events
9 Nov – 1 Dec: Featured Program exhibitions are open to the public
11 Nov: Open Program exhibitions and events

How you can join in

Volunteer behind the scenes to make the festival happen
Support and celebrate photography by visiting the exhibitions during the festival

The 2024 festival is supported by Create NSW, Waverley Council, City of Sydney, international governments, local small businesses and the private sector.

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✺ Śākti ✺ sky, earth, spirit, body and costume works: a longitudinal study of visual anthropology.

In the 1990s, I was in my twenties and returned home to Malaysia after five years of studying in the US. Soon after I arrived, I realised with alarm that I had somehow forgotten where I ‘came from’.

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Dreams of Flying

Crossing the desert on a dog’s back, searching for treasures beneath the ocean, or soaring like Superman through the city – my photographs bring nostalgic dreams to life.

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VILLAGE Hearing the Grass Grow

Traditions are disappearing, languages forgotten, and cultures washed away due to urbanisation. This phenomenon is driven by powerful forces: economics, technology, demographics, and, increasingly, climate change.

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Wish You Were Here

This series explores vacation culture amidst the climate crisis and how it plays, often unconsciously, into ‘last-chance tourism’ – tourism to destinations irreparably changed by the climate crisis and may eventually vanish altogether. The more tourists visit these environments, the more widespread the climate crisis becomes, and the more last-chance tourism grows.

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