Winners announced: Head On Photo Awards
Head On Foundation 
At the Head On Photo Festival launch on Friday night (10 Nov) we announced the much–anticipated winners of the Head On Photo Awards in the Portrait, Environmental, Landscape and Student categories.
The competition was fierce this year – just ask our panel of judges who spent hours upon hours debating and deliberating which talented photographers will take out the top prizes.
We couldn’t be more pleased with the result. Your winners for 2023 are:
HEAD ON PORTRAIT AWARDS
International runner-up: Delphine Blast with ‘The retreat of the butterflies’
Australian runner-up: Julian Kingma with ‘MP Jan Wade’
Overall winner: David Cossini with ‘Ugandan Ssebabi’
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Vote for you favourite portrait finalist in the Head On Portrait Awards people’s choice!
HEAD ON LANDSCAPE AWARDS
International runner-up: Francisco Negroni with ‘The image of fear
Los Lagos Region, Chile. In 2015 and after more than 40 years of calm, the Calbuco volcano began a new and violent eruptive process.
Australian runner-up: Barbara Brown with ‘Shanty Town, Swakopmund, Namibia’
Aerial view describing life within a shanty town north of Swakopmund taken from aeroplane
Overall winner: Talia Greis with ‘Underwater Garden’
A shallow, pond like, open air sinkhole with the most impressive range of water lilies. Found in the depths of the rainforest, Mexico.
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Vote for you favourite Landscape finalist in the Head On Landscape Awards People’s Choice!
HEAD ON ENVIRONMENTAL AWARDS
International runner-up: Annette LeMay Burke with ‘Fauxliage – Airport approach, Palm Springs, CA’
This series documents the proliferation of disguised cell phone towers in the American West. By attempting to conceal an unsightly yet essential technology of the modern world, our landscapes are now sown with a quirky mosaic of masquerading palms, evergreens, flagpoles, crosses, and cacti. But the towers are simulacra. They are water towers that hold no water, windmills that provide no power, and trees that provide no oxygen, yet they all provide five bars of service. The towers pose the question: How much of an ersatz landscape and manufactured nature are we willing to accept in exchange for connectivity?
Australian runner-up: Adam Oswell with ‘Portrait of extinction’
Field rangers from the Ugandan Wildlife Authority pose in front of over 12 tonnes of metal snares confiscated in just one year in Murchison Falls National Park. The snare crisis is devastating wildlife populations across the planet as they are a cheap and effective method of poaching wildlife for powerful and sophisticated criminal syndicates who often exploit impoverished communities to supply a booming global black market for wildlife.
Overall winner: Alain Schroeder with ‘Saving orangutans 1’
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Vote for you favourite environmental finalist in the Head On Environmental Awards People’s Choice!
HEAD ON STUDENT AWARDS
Runner-up: Sienna Lawson-Coffa with ‘Mirror’
Runner-up: Isobel Meyer with ‘Siblings’
Two siblings per dog, country living. Capturing the littered light through the leaves above.
Overall winner: Lucia St Leon with ‘Paper constructs’
I experiment with light and natural fragments of the earth, captured and reframed through dioramas to create an alluring glimpse of the connection between Earthy forms and their inhabitants. Encouraging appreciation for our world.
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Vote for you favourite student finalist in the Head On Student Awards People’s Choice!
Thank you to our wonderful judges: Aline Smithson, Bill Shapiro, Nicky Catley, Jesse Marlow, Gwen Lee, Natan Dvir, Krishna Sheth, James Whitlow Delano, Jessica Hromas, Moshe Rosenzveig OAM, Jasmine Robertson, and Laura Moore.
Head On Photo Awards finalist’s exhibitions are in Bondi. See all the finalists in the finalist’s exhibition pages Portrait, Environmental, Landscape and Student categories.
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