Ambassadors & Advisory Board
Anita holds a BA Pharmacy (Curtin University) and MBA (Boston University). Anita worked as a health professional in the industry in Australia and overseas in a variety of roles including customer service, technical support and marketing. She has also managed research projects, health promotions programs and events. Anita has worked with Head On since 2010, overseeing day-to-day activities, development of the program, marketing and promotion.
Anita Schwartz
FESTIVAL ADVISORY BOARD
Stuart McLean
PROGRAM DIRECTOR IT, WESTPAC
Moshe Rosenzveig OAM is the founder and Creative Director of Head On Photo Festival. Moshe has over 40 years’ experience in the media as a photojournalist, award-winning television producer/director (SBS TV) and commercial photographer. He has held lecturing positions at the University of Technology (UTS), the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and others. He has also sat on judging panels for various competitions including The Walkleys, Tokyo Photography Prize, Sydney’s Art & About and is the lead judge for Head On Photo Awards. In 2018, Moshe received an Order of Australia Medal for services to the arts.
Moshe Rosenzveig OAM
Founder and Creative Director, Head On Photo Festival
David Epstein
VP & EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM, OPTUS
Mark Latchford
GENERAL MANAGER AT IBM ASIA PACIFIC
Gareth Jolly
Partner, Minter Ellison
Julie has qualifications in Commerce and Law and held previous roles at NEHTA (Head of Communications and Public Affairs); NPS Medicine Wise (Executive Manager, Strategy and Communications) and at Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Australia (Head of Policy). Julie’s specialties include: visioning, driving change, turning strategy into action, public policy engagement, unconventional thinking.
Her other current board positions are Director, Vibewire and past board and industry advisory positions include: President, Australian Chapter of the International Institute of Communications, Director Digital Broadcasting Australia, Director, Telephone Information Services Standards Council, Advisory Board, Melbourne University Centre for Media and Communications Law.
Julie Eisenberg
Strategy, Marketing & Comms, Thinking+Doing
Festival selection committee (2023)
Alison Stieven-Taylor is an international photography commentator, journalist and educator. Her writing has appeared in publications including The Weekend Australian, World Press Photo Witness, and the French journal The Eye of Photography. She is also the publisher of the widely-read weekly blog Photojournalism Now. Alison has been a juror for numerous international photography festivals and awards including FotoEvidence Book Award, ANZ Photobook Awards, the Walkley Awards, Head On Photo Awards and the Indian Photography Festival. Alison is currently writing her PhD on photography and social change, and is a lecturer in media communications at Monash University (Melbourne).
Alison Stieven-Taylor
Photography commentator, journalist and educator
Judith Nangala Crispin is a poet, editor and photographic artist. Her visual work focuses on Lumachrome glass printing, a technique she has developed from layered alternative analogue methods including sun printing, chemigram and cliché-verre. A collection of her photographic portraits of remote Warlpiri elders were published in her book ‘The Lumen Seed’ by Daylight Books in 2017.
Judith’s work responds to her Indigenous ancestry and includes themes of displacement, genocide and the loss of connection with nature. In addition to her photography, she has published collections of poetry and academic writings on music. She is currently poetry editor for The Canberra Times and Photography Director for the Kurdiji Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Project.
Judith Nangala Crispin
Visual artist and poet
Louisa Kirby has extensive experience as a photo editor and visual researcher. She is currently working as a visual researcher for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Louisa Kirby
Picture editor, Fairfax Media
Garry Trinh is an artist working in photography, video, painting and works on paper. He makes art about the uncanny, unexpected and spontaneous moments in daily life. He is inspired by his surroundings and from the vast visual output of mass culture. His work is collected by the Art Gallery of NSW and Artbank. He has been exhibited at the Australian Centre for Photography, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Blacktown Arts Centre, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Stills Gallery, Gallery 4A and many others.
Garry Trinh
Artist and educator
Simon Harsent’s career has spanned more than 20 years and three continents. Born in England, his photographic career began in London after he finished studying photography at Watford College. In 1987 Harsent moved to Sydney, Australia where he soon established himself as one of the country’s leading commercial photographers working with the top advertisers in Australia and Asia. 1997 saw Harsent move to New York. However, his connection to Australia and Asia did not stop there. He frequently returns to Australia to shoot and is co-founder of POOL collective, a thriving photographers’ collective. Harsent was listed as one of the most influential people in advertising in Australian Creative’s 2011 Power 20 issue.
Simon Harsent
Director/Photographer and founding member of POOL Collective
Catherine Benz is an art curator based in Sydney. She has over 25 years’ experience working in the contemporary arts sector, holding positions at NAVA, university galleries and Sydney’s former leading photographic gallery, Stills Gallery. Her curatorial projects include survey exhibitions of Australian photographer Trent Parke and New Zealand photographer Laurence Aberhart, amongst many others. She is currently director of Delmar Gallery at Trinity Grammar School.
Catherine Benz
Curator/Director, Delmar Gallery
Murray Fredericks is an internationally-recognised and multi-award winning artist and filmmaker. Graduating with a Bachelor of Politics from the University of Sydney in 1992, Fredericks subsequently spent extended periods travelling alone in the Himalaya and Middle Eastern deserts. During this time he became aware of the profound effect that time spent in isolation – particularly in powerful landscapes – can have on the mind and one’s sense of self.
Murray Fredericks
Artist and filmmaker
Liz Ham has been working professionally as a photographer for over twenty years. Straddling the genres of documentary, portraiture and fashion, her work is infused with nostalgia and narrative, often exploring ideas around identity and subculture. In 2017 Ham’s first monograph ‘Punk Girls’ was released internationally by Manuscript Publishing. Liz is currently undertaking a Masters by Research at UTS exploring her lifelong investment in documentary photography.
Liz Ham
Widely published and collected photographer
Brian Cassey has been working as a media photographer/photojournalist for several decades. Originally from London, he began his lengthy career in photography; Brian has now long been based in tropical Cairns, Australia where he freelances for International and Australian media and wires. He has exhibited at Head On Photo Festival and has had work featured in Head On Photo Awards many times.
Brian Cassey
Walkley award winning photojournalist
Claire Martin (1980) began her career by studying a degree in Social Work, however, she changed her focus to Photography when she realised that change can also be effected through this medium.
Her personal work has been awarded by organisations including the Magnum Foundation, and Reportage by Getty Images. She has exhibited at many institutions including Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Photographers Gallery, UK. Operating alongside her personal work, Claire photographs in-depth editorial feature stories for publications such as TIME Magazine, Bloomberg Business week, and Vanity Fair.
She was a member of Oculi, Australia’s most established photo collective, from 2010 – 2014. She also co-created “Danube Revisited – The Inge Morath Truck Project”, a photographic road trip along the length of the Danube River and a traveling exhibition of the work of renowned Magnum photographer Inge Morath.
Beyond the still image Claire is preoccupied with the power of story telling in any medium. She lectures in photo media at Edith Cowan University and is routinely invited to speak about photography and journalism at galleries and industry events. Claire is based in Perth, Western Australia and is represented internationally by INSTITUTE artist management.
Claire Martin
FotoFreo creative director
Bronek Kozka is a photographer, an artist and educator, with over 30 years’ experience in the photography industry & 20 in tertiary education and an exhibition practice. In 2008 he was named as a Hasselblad Master, launching my exhibition practice. Kozka’s latest direction sees him out of the studio an in the backcountry. Exploring his connection with nature, Mediated by the Digital Lens & The Imperfect Beauty of the Sublime challenge maker and viewer to commune with nature on a deep level.
Bronek Kozka
Artist and educator
Gerrit Fokkema spent many years balancing assignment-based work with personal projects and family life and now concentrates on a number of long-term documentary projects.
In addition to a successful commercial career, Gerrit’s personal practice has led to inclusion in the collections of the Australian National Gallery, Art Gallery of NSW, State Library of NSW, and the National Gallery of Victoria.
Gerrit Fokkema
Documentary photographer
Moshe Rosenzveig OAM is the founder and Creative Director of Head On Photo Festival.
Moshe has over 40 years’ experience in the media as a photojournalist, award-winning television producer/director (SBS TV) and commercial photographer. He has held lecturing positions at the University of Technology (UTS), the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and others. He has also sat on judging panels for various competitions including The Walkleys, Tokyo Photography Prize, Sydney’s Art & About and is the lead judge for Head On Photo Awards. In 2018, Moshe received an Order of Australia Medal for services to the arts.
Moshe Rosenzveig OAM
Founder and Creative Director, Head On Photo Festival
Special thanks
Anna Kamasz
Allan Coker
Alasdair Foster
Andrew Stewart
Ante Badzim
Anthony Maniaty (Head On Interactional)
Claudia Carraro
Danilo Sidari
David O’Sullivan
EB Pearls
Eddie Lim
Emma Diss
Gael Newton
Gary Chan
Gerrit Fokkema
Gonzalo Cubillo de Regoyos
Ingrid Piper
Jake Anthony
James Niven
Jasmine Trajceski
Jennifer Bott
Jennifer Kwok
Jennifer Trinca
John Poulton
Jonathan Langan
Jun Yoon
Karine Mauris
Lilo Guarneri
Luisa Machielse
Marc Selby
Milton & Penny Harris
Martin Shub
Micha Goldfine
Michael Watson
Mick Collopy
Mike Tsangaris
Monica Rosenfeld
Noa Rosenzveig
Peter Eastway
Peter Yeh
Phil Bayly
Rob Scheeren
Ron Gottlieb
Sally Brownbill
Sarah Ducker
Saul Frank
Shaun Munro
Simon Marshall
Sonja Millis
Stewart Hawkins (Head On Interactional)
Vivek Handoo
Warren Macris
Will Shipton
And all our dedicated partners, contributors and volunteers
Head On Photo Awards
The Head On Photo Awards represent a global selection of the best work from emerging and established photographers across four categories: Portrait | Landscape | Environmental | Student