Three tips for photographers

Head on Photo Festival

Two weeks to go

You have a project finished and ready to go, but ready to go where?

You cannot underestimate the importance of exhibiting in an arts festival to get your work seen.

Here are three tips to help you prepare your submission to Head On Photo Festival.

Three tips to prepare your submission:

1. Get to know the festival and what we want

Read about the festival first! Find out what we’re about and how the festival runs. We use a blind selection process and are generally looking for well-executed work with a unique voice in any genre of photography.

2. Let your work do the talking

During the selection process, we look at three things; your images, the exhibition description and how they work together as a cohesive body of work on a single theme.
Note: group shows and retrospectives do not need to have an overarching theme.

We understand that words may not come to you naturally, but it is important that you can provide us with the context required to grasp your work. The description and imagery must reflect each other, i.e. do your images communicate what you are saying in words?

Spend a bit of extra time fine-tuning your exhibition description. Keep it clear and concise, do not describe what is already in the pictures and avoid too much ‘art-speak’.

3. Are you the best curator for your own work?

Your photographs are the most important part of your submission. Your work may highlight a very important social cause but if your images or selection of images are not up to snuff you won’t get in.

When you are choosing what work to submit run the images past people who approach photomedia with different perspectives – is the theme interesting? Do the images and words work together?

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Bonus 4th tip. Submit before the deadline (17 September 2017)

Avoid stress and potential technical hitches by submitting early. Difficult as it is to say ‘no’, the submission process must keep moving.

Deadline - 17 September 2017

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Head On goes international (again)

Super excited to be touring the work of 80 Head On Photo Awards finalists to China and India.

Head On Creative Director Moshe Rosenzveig has curated a survey exhibition from past Head On Landscape Prizes for exhibition in the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China 19-25 September AND The Head On Portrait Prize 2017 is touring to the Indian Photography Festival in Hyderabad, India 21 September – 8 October.

Several exhibiting artists of Head On Photo Festival 2017 will also be showing work in Hyderabad this year.

Great to see artists ‘heading on’ to more festivals on the international scene.

ENDS

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