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Winners of Head On 2008
02.05.2008
Winners of the 2008 Head On Portrait Prize were announced last night at the Australian Centre for Photography in Paddington to a record crowd of more than 900 people. The show was officially opened by the Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore who presented the prizes to the 3 (equal) winners, Brendan Esposito for his image ‘Sweet Dreams’, Richard Kendall for his image ‘Leonard & William at Alfred Hospital’ and Tobias Titz for his image ‘Ginger Bob’. The ‘Critic’s Choice’ went to Montalbetti & Campbell for their image ‘Hazel & Ken Kelly’.
The winners of the competition received prizes with a total value of $32000 from Canon, Adobe, SanDisk, ACDSee, Focal Press and Dragon Image.
Head On, now in its fifth year, is regarded by the arts community and reviewers as the most critically important photographic portrait prize in the country.
The show includes 42 finalists who were selected out of 2400 submissions by multi award winning photographer Stephen Dupont, Byron McMahon Gallery director Sandra Byron and Head On founder and curator Moshe Rosenzveig. The ‘Critic’s Choice’ was selected by the Sydney Morning Herald photography critic Robert McFarlane.
The show includes further 130 images presented electronically as a slide show selected out of the huge number of images submitted to the competition.
Selection of images for Head On was and will continue to be based on the power of the photograph rather than the celebrity of either the sitter or photographer.
