Sharing a prize pool of $80,000, the Head On Photo Awards winners were announced at the Festival launch this month (November 2024), in front of over a thousand people. This prestigious competition celebrates the power of visual storytelling and showcases the best in contemporary photography.
Winner - Exposure Award - Antonio Denti – NOTES FROM THE EDGE OF A PRIMORDIAL FUTURE
Nightfall at Sea. Kids from the generation alpha – rightly called so as they really are growing in a world exponentially different from anything known by their predecessors – play with technology while night falls in a primordial stretch of coast by Mount Etna’s volcano, on the Mediterranean sea.
Winner - Landscape Award - Kinga Wrona
Found view of the house in la Palma (Spanish Canary Island) after the eruption of volcano Cumbre Vieja. La Palma, only exists because of volcanic eruption built this land long time ago, forming the archipelago known as the Canary Islands. In 2021, during 85 days the volcano Cumbre Vieja on La Palma has been active. The eruption was the longest in the history of the island and the most destructive of last century in Europe. Photographs comes from project ”85”.
Winner - Portrait Award - Drew Gardner – Deanne Stanford Walz descendant of Harriet Tubman
Deanne Stanford Walz descendant of Harriet Tubman, former slave turned activist, sits to recreate a recently discovered photograph of Tubman. The image was a culmination of 3 years research to recreate photos of civil war participants with their descendants. Costume was specially made, the set was painstakingly reconstructed using as many original items as possible. Photo was taken in a daylight studio in New York, the sitter had to stay still for the 40 second exposure supported by period body rests to help her keep still. The photo was taken on a 5×7 inch TinType camera from the 19th century.
