@headonphoto.bsky.socialAnother glimpse of whatβs coming to Head On Photo Festival 2026!
Based in Melbourne, street photographer David Niu heads out with no expectations, looking for the unexpected collisions of people, architecture and city life.
Image credit: David Niu @davids_art_street
@headonphoto.bsky.socialIn π»π¦ππππ π΅πππππ , Portuguese photographer Jorge Ferreira plays with perspective, overlapping bodies and unexpected visual alignments to create strange new forms.
See the exhibition on the Bondi Beach promenade during Head On Photo Festival, 6β29 November 2026.
Image: Jorge Ferreira
@headonphoto.bsky.socialTrent Mitchell 's ππΆπ΄π΅π³π’ππͺπ’π― ππΆπ΄π΅π³π¦ draws on childhood holidays, family history and Mitchellβs wry observations of Australian culture to explore memory, identity and the uneasy space between past and present.
Image credit: Trent Mitchell
@headonphoto.bsky.socialππ΄ πΏπππ is coming to Sydney!
First presented at Head On Photo Festival in Perth earlier this year, ππ΄ πΏπππ brings together 15 finalists whose photographs offer very different perspectives on life across Western Australia.
Image credit: Stephen Pidgeon
@headonphoto.bsky.socialNext in our look at Head On Photo Festival 2026 is Ciaran Spencerβs Ukrainian Social Club.
Photographed 25 years apart, the series traces generations of displacement, identity and community within Nottinghamβs Ukrainian diaspora.
Image credit: Ciaran Spencer @ciaran.spencer
@headonphoto.bsky.socialIn 2022, Iranian-Australian artist Ramak Bamzar presented πππ’π π‘ππβππππ πππππ πππ π βπππππππ π‘ππ πΊππππ on the Bondi Beach promenade.
Revisit the exhibition:
headon.org.au/exhibitions/moustachioed-women-and-rhinoplastic-girls
Image credit: Ramak Bamzar
@headonphoto.bsky.socialIn 2016, Head On Photo Festival presented Dutch photographer Ingetje Tadrosβ πβππ πΌπ ππ¦ πΆππ’ππ‘ππ¦, documenting Aboriginal communities in and around Broome, Western Australia.
Revisit the exhibition:
headon.org.au/exhibitions/my-country
Image credit: Ingetje Tadros @ingetje_tadros
@headonphoto.bsky.socialIn 2015, Head On Photo Festival presented Iranian photographer Gohar Dashtiβs work in Australia for the first time. She draws on her experience growing up in Iran in the shadow of the Iran-Iraq war.
Revisit Dashtiβs exhibition here: headon.org.au/exhibitions/...
Image: Gohar Dashti
@headonphoto.bsky.socialHead On Photo Festival 2012 brought together established and emerging photographers from around the world for π΅π’ππ ππ πππππ‘, curated by David Alan Harvey and Diego Orlando.
Image credits: Mike Loyd Young, Bruce Gilden, Michelle Frankfurter and Paolo Pellegrin
@headonphoto.bsky.socialJonathan Jasberg's work, inspired by the ancient Egyptian proverb βA beautiful thing is never perfectβ, looks beyond familiar perceptions of Cairo to the people and moments he encountered there.
See more: headon.org.au/exhibitions/...
Image credit: Jonathan Jasberg
@headonphoto.bsky.socialDutch photographer Guido Benschop presented π΄ππ¦πππππ through his alter ego, Du Choff in 2020.
Explore the exhibition: headon.org.au/exhibitions/...
Image credits: Du Choff, courtesy Head On Photo Festival 2020
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@headonphoto.bsky.socialJohn Walmsley, Jungyook Park and Kojiro Oishi brought different landscapes to the Head On Landscape Awards 2025.
Image credits: John Walmsley, Jungyook Park and Kojiro Oishi, finalists, Head On Landscape Awards 2025
@headonphoto.bsky.socialSteven Benson and Giles Clarke were finalists in the Head On Portrait Awards 2025.
Explore more finalists from the Head On Portrait Awards 2025: headon.org.au/exhibitions/...
Image credits: Steven Benson and Giles Clarke, finalists, Head On Portrait Awards 2025
@headonphoto.bsky.socialPresented at Head On Photo Festival 2024, Ella Waldman documents a former Soviet hospital that became a refuge for ethnic Georgians expelled from Abkhazia during the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict of 1992β93.
Discover it at headon.org.au/exhibitions/...
Image credit: Ella Waldman
@headonphoto.bsky.socialEntries for AddOn 2026 close next Sunday 27 September.
Open to photographers of all backgrounds and genres, AddOn is a non-competitive, anonymous exhibition and an important fundraiser for Head On Foundation.
Submit your image and be part of AddOn 2026: headon.org.au/addon
@headonphoto.bsky.socialIn 2023, Matthew Renewβs The Life of Birds transformed photographs of the natural world into elaborate, hyperreal scenes inspired by 19th-century natural history illustration.
Explore the exhibition: headon.org.au/exhibitions/...
Image credits: Matthew Renew
@headonphoto.bsky.socialMiles Hewitt-Boorman and Alexander Hagemann, finalists in the Head On Landscape Awards 2025, offer two very different approaches to landscape.
Explore more work from the Landscape Awards 2025: headon.org.au/exhibitions/...
Image credits: Miles Hewitt-Boorman and Alexander Hagemann
@headonphoto.bsky.socialIn 2017, Head On presented Michael Amendoliaβs Through the Lens: 25 Years of Sight Restoration, documenting the sight-restoring work of The Fred Hollows Foundation around the world.
Discover more about it here: www.headon.org.au/magazine/mic...
Image credit: Michael Amendolia
@headonphoto.bsky.socialLinda Jerkinβs photograph is full of energy, movement and unexpected relationships across the frame.
See the full 2025 Awards exhibition: headon.org.au/exhibitions/...
Image credit: Linda Jerkin, finalist, Head On Exposure Awards 2025
@headonphoto.bsky.socialOnly two weeks to go to be part of AddOn 2026!
Want to know more about AddOn and how it all began? Read all about it and submit here: headon.org.au/magazine/add...
Entries close Sunday 27 September, so choose the images youβd love to see at AddOn and enter today.
Image credit: AddOn
