Last night time at the hole event for the 5th annual Head On Photo Festival Moshe Rosenzveig, Festival Director, introduced the winners in the four prize categories for 2014 - Portrait, Landscape, Mobile and the newly introduced Multimedia. He told the ability crowd at the Paddington Town Hall that the Head On Awards attracted greater that 4000 entries this yr from photographers around the world. Alison Stieven-Taylor turned into a judge for the Landscape Prize this yr.
Head On Portrait Prize Winner - Tenth Anniversary
Joe Wigdahl: Family Loss
A portrait of Kirrilee Edwards before her death. Kirrilee suffered a catastrophic brain injury at 12 which required 24 hour care for several years. The image shows her being touched by her incredible parents and 6 brothers and sisters who have all taken part in caring for her.
Head On Landscape Prize Winner
Nick Hannes: Cairo, Egypt
Blank advertisement billboards along the highway in 6th of October City, a satellite city of Cairo, Egypt, 2012. From the series 'The Continuity of Man', a portrait of the Mediterranean region.
Head On Mobile Prize Winner
Clare Bardsley-Smith: Boy vs Wild 
Taken during a huge typhoon at Coogee Beach. The boys were fearless, braving the massive waves and diving off one of the massive rocks into the surrounding rock pool.
This 12 months the Festival's foremost sponsor Olympus supplied winners with an impressive variety of prizes. Alison Stieven-Taylor has been trialling the O-MD E-M1 and it's tremendous. Light-weight, speedy, quiet and quite practical, this digital camera is a winner.
Check out the what the winner of the Head On Portrait Prize gets this 12 months for instance of the wonderful prize bundle: First prize worth over $10,000 and includes $5,000 coins and a extremely good Olympus Camera Kit worth $four,396 (Olympus OM-D E-M1 frame with 12-40mm f2.Eight lens, 45mm f1.Eight lens, 45mm f1.Eight lens, 75mm f1.Eight lens), 1 Year subscription to Adobe Creative Suite worth $six hundred and more!
You can see the finalists in every class at the exhibitions, information below:
Head On Portrait Prize ? 40 Finalists
Until 8 June
Paddington Reservoir
251-255 Oxford Street
Paddington
Second Prize Winner:
Richard Wainwright: Life and a suitcase
?We fled Syria throughout the border into Jordan and could simplest bring this suitcase with a few clothes and food for the baby. It become bloodless and threatening, I can't explain how lousy it?S been for the youngsters? Zeena, 26 and her family struggle to live to tell the tale in Amman after fleeing Homs following the destruction in their residence and bakery.
Third Prize Winner:
Heather Tichowitsch: Vicki
Gone is my complete enough cleavage delight and joy which I once felt defined my womanhood. I now recognise I am each bit as plenty a girl put up mastectomy. The new me may be an improvement, however I mourn what I lost, my beyond identity, what I became, whilst nevertheless rejoicing in what I am now.
Head On Landscape Prize ? Forty Finalists
Until 8 June
NSW Parliament House, Fountain Court Gallery
6 Macquarie Street
Sydney
Second Prize Winner:
Victor Stepanow: Burnet Forrest
Here, from above, we see a group of crows above a burnt wooded area, they're as black because the scorched timber beneath, burnished feathers flickering within the sunlight, their darting movements contrasting with the dead stillness beneath. Vast landscapes of lovely, crisp desolation, a view that each delights the eye, and scars the soul.
Third Prize Winner:
Adrian Rohnfelder: Tengger massif in Indonesia
Tengger massif in Indonesia in early morning mild with lively volcanoes Mount Bromo and Mount Semeru.
NSW Landscape Award Winner:
Peter Solness; Waterscape #2, Reservoir No.2, Centennial Park NSW 2013
I wanted to re-imagine the lost waterways, so I got my light-painting tools to work. In this image, water is being released from the top of the historic Centennial Park No. 2 Reservoir, which was built in 1925 and holds 90 megalitres of water. After 89 years of incarceration these waters now run free!
Head On Mobile Prize ? Finalists
Until 7 June
Depot II Gallery
2 Danks Street
Waterloo
Second Prize Winner:
Andrew Quilty: Burns Victim
In Boost Hospital (run by Medicines Sans Frontiers) in the provincial capital of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, a young girl lies in an observation room after being burnt in an accident with an oil lamp. Heat blankets are used to protect the body from cooling down to dangerously low temperatures as it attempts to deal with the burns.
Third Prize Winner:
Laki Sedaris: Somewhere close to Codrington
Head On Multimedia Prize ? Finalists
Until 7 June
Brenda May Gallery
2 Danks Street
Waterloo
(No snap shots have been to be had at time of publishing)
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