Photographic Warriors
A gallery of the 2020 Head On Photography Award winning works.
Themes of modern families, learning from the land and Australian bushfires were represented amongst the winners of this year’s Head On Photo Awards, announced on 1 May.
Australia’s leading international photography event, the Head On Photo Awards attract entries from around the world.
The announcement coincided with the opening of year’s (now digital) festival which is taking place from now until 17 May. The revised format festival features 110 exhibitions by photographers near and far, and over 80 artist talks and webinars by photographers stretching five continents.
Here are some highlights of year’s stand out works.
2020 Landscape Prize Winner, Marcia Macmillan 'Whimsical Warrior' (Australia). The moment her daughter, a quintessential farm girl who likes to dress up, ran towards a huge dust storm.
Landscape Runner Up, Nick Moir 'Run' (Australia). Documenting firefighters escaping the heat of the Green Wattle Creek fire in Orangeville during the devastating 2019/20 Australian bushfire season.
International Landscape Runner Up, Paul Carruthers, 'Cheddar Gorge - Horseshoe Bendwhich'. a five-minute night-time exposure of the famous limestone gorge, once voted one of the seven wonders of Britain.
International Portrait Runner Up, Iouk Oosterhof, 'Egbert'. Draws on an old technique used for long exposures where children were held by their parents who were covered in decorative fabrics, to keep them in place and prevent blurry pictures.
2020 Student Prize, Jack Parkinson, 'Within without' (Australia). Explores the unstable terrain between childhood and adulthood.
Portrait Runner Up Australia, Jon Frank, 'Yuendumu'. Created during a year living and working with the Warlpiri people in the Northern Territory
2020 Portrait Prize Winner, Fiona Wolf-Symeonides, 'The Gift' (Australia). Captures a modern family story of a girl born by a warrior woman to two loving dads.