Friday Round Up - at Head On Photo Festival Sydney

HEAD ON PHOTO FESTIVAL SYDNEY

"Everywhere is a gallery," Festival Director Moshe Rosenzveig. 

This week's Friday Round Up comes to you from Sydney's Head On Photo Festival which opens today and runs until 23 June with more than 200 exhibitions, 900 photographers and over 100 galleries participating in this city-wide celebration of photography. So Friday Round Up takes a slightly different form this week, becoming Weekend Round Up as Alison Stieven-Taylor blogs live from the Festival. Look out for posts over the weekend including tonight's announcement of the Head On Portrait Prize winner.


Ben Lowy with his exhibition iAfghanistan
at the State Library NSW this morning

The State Library NSW plays host to the main featured exhibitions in the Festival. In addition to Lowy's iAfghanistan, is Magnum on Set, images from iconic film sets including a fantastic sequence of images of Marilyn Monroe by Elliott Erwitt on the set of the Seven Year Itch. Also at the Library is Belinda Mason's Black on White; Street featuring work by nine Sydney photographers using everything from large format film to iPhones, plus the finalists in the portrait prize are also on display. And that's just one venue.


Festival Director Moshe Rosenzveig

Magnum on Set: The Seven Year Itch

BEN LOWY AND SHAHIDUL ALAM IN CONVERSATION - TOMORROW 

Ben Lowy and Shahidul Alam will be discussing photojournalism and social media at ABC Radio 702 Saturday at 2pm. Moshe tells me there are a few tickets left. This is a fantastic opportunity. To find out more visit the Head On website. 

Head On opens tonight at 6pm at TAFE Ultimo. The opening ceremony includes the announcement of the winners of the Head On Portrait Prize, Head Off Landscape Prize and Head On Momento Photobook Award.

Stay tuned for more updates....

Friday Round Up - 10 May

The week on Friday Round Up two exhibitions from Sydney's Head On, a new gallery for photography lovers, Requiem opens at the Human Rights Festival in Melbourne and new Tim Page Unseen from Cuba. Also a photograph taken by Bangladeshi photographer Taslima Akhter of the garment factory collapse in Dhaka on April 25 that has touched hearts around the world. Enjoy the Round Up and your weekend.


(C) Tim Page - Cuba


(C) Taslima Akhter


(C) Tom Evangelidis


(C) Marnya Rothe


(C) Gilbert Bel-Bachir

Friday Round Up 3 May

The week on Friday Round Up a new book from writer/photographer John Ogden, Slightly Dangerous; Sebastião Salgado in interview for Genesis; and the start of our coverage on Sydney's Head On Festival with an exhibition on the Yakuza by Anton Kusters.

Sebastiao Salgado talks to Alison Stieven-Taylor about Genesis

Alison Stieven-Taylor's interview with Sebastiao Salgado is on Le Journal de la Photographie today. Please click link here to read.

Friday Round Up - 26th April

Alison Stieven-Taylor's story in March, "Death of a Festival" about the demise of Foto Freo, Australia’s most successful and longest running photography festival, hit a nerve with the directors of Australia’s other major photography festivals, namely Ballarat International Foto Biennale and Sydney’s Head On. Read the full story on this week's Friday Round Up.

Friday Round Up - 19 April

This week Friday Round Up features a photo essay by Vlad Sokhin on child slavery in Haiti, book reviews on new works by Anthony S. Karen and Hans-Christian Schink, an exhibition by Robert Rooney The Box Brownie Years and images from legendary photojournalist Tim Page as part of Tim Page Unseen exclusive to Photojournalism Now.

(C) Tim Page



(C) Anthony S. Karen



(C) Robert Rooney



(C) Hans-Christian Schink



(C) Vlad Sokhin

Friday Round Up - 12 April

This week Friday Round Up is jam packed with great photography starting with an amazing, and disturbing photo essay by young American photographer Sara Lewkowicz, a review of the book "If You Knew Me You Would Care", a new photography gallery opens in Sydney and more photographs from iconic photojournalist Tim Page as part of the Tim Page Unpublished series exclusive to Photojournalism Now. Enjoy the weekend wherever you are.


(C) Tim Page


(C) Sara Lewkowicz


(C) Rennio Maifredi


(C) James Brickwood

Friday Round Up - 5 April

This week Friday Round Up features a photo essay from Philippe Schneider "Where We Live Matters," Anastasia Taylor-Lind's The National Womb exhibition opens in Madrid, Kyotographie festival makes its debut, and a reminder to check out Tim Page Unseen - unpublished photos from legendary conflict photographer exclusive to Photojournalism Now. Have a great weekend.

(c) Anastasia Taylor-Lind - The National Womb



(c) Tim Page Afghanistan



(c) Philippe Schneider - Where We Live Matters

(c) Nicolas Bouvier - Kyotographie Festival

Friday Round Up Exclusive - Tim Page Unpublished

Iconic photojournalist Tim Page shares a series of unpublished photo essays with Photojournalism Now. This is a unique opportunity to view photos by one of the world's most highly regarded conflict photographers. Please click on the tab at the top of the blog "Tim Page - The Unpublished Photographs" or click on the link here.

In the coming months Tim will share a selection of photo essays shot around the world. Tune in every Friday for updates. Or subscribe using your email address to get Photojournalism Now direct to your inbox.

To say we are ecstatic, would be an understatement! Have a great weekend.

Afghanistan (c) Tim Page

Friday Round Up - 22 March, 2013

This week on Friday Round Up photo essays from Michael Biach, Anne Ackermann and Camille Léage, Head On announces Benjamin Lowy as special guest, Donald Weber to host workshop in Sydney and discussion on the notion of creative people, writers and photographers in particular, being asked to work for free - would you work for free? Have a great weekend. (To read Friday Round Up in full please click on the tab of the same name at the top of the blog)


(C) Michael Biach - Made in Bangladesh


(C) Ben Lowy - Special Guest Head On Festival


(C) Anne Ackermann - Gulu Youth

Friday Round Up - 15 March 2013

This week on Friday Round Up a new iPad book from John Vink, new iPhone images from Michael Coyne, Franco Pagetti opens an exhibition in New York with a panel discussion and for something completely different, take a look at Lisa Tomasetti's quirky on the street photographs of the Australian Ballet in New York, Paris and Tokyo. And if you didn't get to it last week, please take a moment to read the feature article on the Death of a Festival on the Feature Articles tab. Have a great weekend.

(c) Lisa Tomasetti

(C) Michael Coyne

(C) Franco Pagetti