Head On Landscape Awards 2024

The prestigious Head On Photo Awards celebrates the world’s best in photography, illuminating the perspectives, styles, and forms that break new ground. We want to challenge emerging photographers to bring audiences new ways of seeing the world. Our dual aim is to ensure photographers are valued for their incredible creative contributions and to create a forum where exceptional images can be shared.

This is underpinned by Head On’s diverse and experienced curation team, which actively seeks bold, daring, and exciting images. Our blind judging process, where artists’ names are hidden, ensures this work is done on an even playing field.

Every photo is judged on impact alone, which reflects our unique curation philosophy. Head On believes that curation must consider both the seen and the unseen. Truly great photographs reveal a truth about our world without sacrificing the imagination. They allow you to dream of what it would be like to be on the ground when a photo was made and give you a fleeting glimpse into the life unfolding around the moment.

The Head On Landscape Awards (est. 2013) celebrate innovation in landscape photography. The selected competition’s finalists encompass landscape photographers who push the boundaries of landscape as a visual genre and explore how we navigate the spaces we inhabit and the spaces that exclude us.

These photographers challenge us to examine our relationships with the beautiful, harsh, built, and natural environments that make up our world, whether in moments of change or times of stasis.