Head on Foundation invites photographers to submit works to the 2008 photographic portrait competition.
Prizes will be awarded for the best 3 images. The selection of images will be based on the power of the photograph rather than the celebrity of the subject or photographer. Images could range from film to digitally produced using any photographic technique in colour and/or black & white.
Further prizes will be awarded to images selected by �The Critic� and for �People�s Choice�.
Finalists� work will be selected by Sandra Byron, Byron-McMahon Gallery director, Stephen Dupont, multi award winning photographer and Moshe Rosenzveig, Head On curator. The �Critic Prize� will be selected by Robert McFarlane, the Sydney Morning Herald photography critic.
Total value of prizes is approximately $32,000. Prizes for Head On 2008 are as follows:
- 3 x digital SLR Canon 5D
- 3x Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens
- 3 x Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
- Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Master Collection
- 3x Canon professional A3+ printer Pixma Pro9500
- 3 x ACDSee Pro Digital Asset Management software
- 3x Sandisk 4gb Extreme IV Memory card
- 3x Sandisk Extreme Firewire reader
- Books from Focal Press
- Dragon Image Lighting package
The allocation of prizes is wholly at the discretion of Head On.
Head On finalists will be exhibited at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney 1 May - 7 June 2008 and then at the M16 Artspace, Canberra 9 - 22 July 2008 as part of Vivid National Photography Festival.
Head On, now in its fifth year, has established itself as one of Australia's major photographic portrait exhibitions. It is committed to advancing photography as a popular art form and to support photographers from all genres through its exhibition and the newly established fund supported by Orient Capital.
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source : headon.com.au
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