Head On Photo Festival 4 May – 3 June 2012

4 May – 3 June 2011
Silverpixel Photographic Studio

Exhibitors

Dan Freene
David Young
Zelko Nedic
Roberto Duran

Head On Festival – Nuran Zorlu & Ireneusz Luty Exhibition Opening

Ireneusz Luty

Nuran Zorlu

Ewa Witkowska, Ireneusz Luty

Nuran Zorlu, Frank Ruggerino

Christine and Nuran Zorlu

Ewa Witkowska, Ireneusz Luty and Moshe Rosenzveig

Cris Mendes and Alice Thornborough

Nuran Zorlu, Lauren Anderson and Westley Wong

Leonie Urquhart and Nicki Vinnicombe

Laura and Frank Ruggerino

Kutay Kesim

Ewa Witkowska, Ireneusz Luty and Anna Zelich

Ireneusz Luty and Moshe Rosenzveig

Cassandra McCoy, Ireneusz Luty

Ewa Witkowska, Rachael Currie, Ireneusz Luty

Suzanne Rundle, Tim Green, Rachael Currie

Opening speech by Anne Verhoeven for Ireneusz Luty

Opening speech, Nuran Zorlu

Ambassador Mahmoud Babaei, Iran and Nuran Zorlu

Moshe Rosenzveig, Nuran Zorlu and Ambassador Mahmoud Babaei

Ireneusz Luty, Robert Bew, Blane Simpson

Anna Zelich, Ewa Witkowska

Alice Thornborough and Cris Mendes, Nuran Zorlu, Urs and Josie Buhlman

Ani Ohannessian, Nuran and Christine Zorlu,

Omid Moaref, Nuran Zorlu, Aaron Kay

Nuran Zorlu, Ani and Berj Ohannessian

Anne Verhoeven, Ireneusz Luty

Moshe Rosenzveig and friends

Head On Festival – Caroline Pankert & Nathalie Daoust Exhibition Opening

Caroline Pankert

Dean Zillwood & Corey Middleton

Rita Slattery, Caroline Pankert, Aisling Nevin, Therese Granath

Stephen Antonopoulos, Helen Roche and Jens Meyer

Effi Cohen

Caroline Pankert and David Roche (pic by Jamie Williams)

Caroline Pankert, Philip Naylor and Amy Brady

Jamie Williams

Lane McIntyre, Alex Roche, Clint Phillips and Kate Bransby

Caroline Pankert and Heidrun Blackwood

Head On Festival – Signature Time & Place, Iran – An exhibition by Nuran Zorlu

Signature Time and Place – Iran

There are many faces that a country can project. The most obvious is the political face and in the case of the country of Iran, the most common portrayal of it’s face in the western press is of a strict religious and politically outcast state.

Unfortunately what does not get discussed very often is the cultural face of the country. Iran, being the latest incarnation of a centuries old Persian empire, engulfs so many  distinct cultures and ethnicities. Today Iran actively engages in the preservation of all these varied heritages; something that sadly no other country in the region seems inclined to do. It is for this reason that as a member of one of those communities I have conducted a long term personal project to document artifacts and customs that have survived for thousands of years, but may well be on the verge of disappearing from my native regions of the Middle East.

In order to appreciate who we are as a society it is important to understand where we have come from and how we have created concrete artifacts that embellish our cultures. We need to reference the past in words, such as scriptures, song or poetry. We also need to do this visually. It may be painted artwork, sculpture, architecture or simply photographic representations of life style. It’s these visuals that I seek to preserve as the inevitable morphing of cultures takes place over time.
 

Nuran Zorlu Sydney based commercial and portrait photographer ,although he is a specialist in jewellery photography, likes to photograph variety of subjects from landscapes to cars , travel to portraits.
He is very passionate about preserving the cultural dignities, through his project he travels to Middle East to documenting areas which not very familiar to many people of the planet. With his photography and philosophy, he likes to create a bridge between this landscapes, architectural details and people  to viewers.

Exhibition Date: 27 May – 12 June 2011

Head On Festival – Impersonating Mao – An exhibition by Nathalie Daoust

Impersonating Mao

The work of Montreal-born photographer, Nathalie Daoust, maps the blurred boundary between reality and imagination to explore ideas of fantasy and escape. For her new project, ‘Impersonating Mao’, Daoust focuses on the interior world of an impersonator who assumes the appearance and bearing of Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China. Daoust’s portraits record her subject’s desire to flee reality and take refuge in a dream world of half-truth and illusion.

When Daoust first met her subject in 2008 – posing as Mao in Tiananmen Square as an act of personal homage – she was intrigued by his construction of an alternate identity from the iconography of his country’s troubled past. In 2010, she returned to Beijing and photographed the impersonator extensively, both in a domestic setting and at sites of historic importance. The juxtaposition allowed Daoust to interrogate communist China’s complicated relationship to Mao’s legacy, echoed in the internal negotiations of the impersonator as he transformed into Mao.

Shot on a stash of old Chinese film uncovered in Beijing, Daoust physically manipulated the negatives in the darkroom to create a dreamy mood of memory and illusion. Each print is sealed in amber-like resin; the resulting portraits combine a 21st century handling of perspective with a visual timelessness, reflecting Daoust’s preoccupation with the borders between contemporary reality and an imagined past.

Exhibition Date: 5 May – 22 May 2011

Head On Festival – Sydney Life – An exhibition by Ireneusz Luty, 27 May – 12 June 2011

“Sydney Life “
Sydney Life is a unique and engaging photographic exploration which presents the viewer with Sydney from new and unexpected angles. Pictures explore the interaction of people and places amongst the constant movement of a busy metropolis. They attempt to reveal the essence of Sydney, something that goes beyond initial ‘post-card’ impressions and facades. They show places and moments, some of which may be familiar yet surprising. These works represent an ongoing and personal journey of memory, time and experience, which as a body of work aim to provoke thought, consideration and reflection on behalf of the viewer towards this unique city.

Head On Festival – Black Saturday – An exhibition by Caroline Pankert

Black Saturday

On Saturday 7^th February 2009, southeast Australia was ravaged by the worst bushfires the country had ever seen. A series of raging infernos claimed 173 lives as well as hundreds of casualties, whilst wiping entire country towns off the map.

Black Saturday is a documentary portrait series, in which the Belgian photographer Caroline Pankert investigates and catalogues the effects of these bushfires in the rural Australian community of Traralgon South.

But rather than presenting the sheer magnitude of the damage, Pankert prefers to focus her lens on the detail. The photographs explore the intimate consequences of the fires as they are read through the indiscriminate traces they have left on people, property and animals alike.

Head On Photo Festival 5 May – 11 June 2011

Exhibitors
5 May – 11 June 2011
Silverpixel Photographic Studio
 

Caroline Pankert
Nathalie Daoust
Nuran Zorlu
Ireneusz Luty

Film Launch and Exhibition Night – Giant in my mind

Fiona Trick

Jason Edwards and Derry Sheehan

Judy, Fiona, Phill Trick & Derry Sheehan

James Daley, Christian Hoppenbrouwers and Fiona Trick

Fiona Trick and Lâle Teoman

Jason Edwards and Amy Tuxworth

Tina Salama and Jason Edwards

better out than in......

Tammy Knox and Amy Tuxworth

Jason Edwards and John Huntley

Lucy Hall

Isabella Melody Moore

Lesley & Rod Freedman, Helen Roche, Linda and Paul Christie

Peter and Themus Giannakis, David Roche

Giant in my mind – fund raiser – Cosmos Rock Lounge