As you’ll have seen in my most recent post, Canon Australia has launched its EOS Festival of Photography.

The launch pad for the EOS Festival is the inaugural Head On Photo Festival which kicked off yesterday.

Head On Photo Festival is an exciting initiative involving galleries, cafes and parks around Sydney exhibiting local and international photography. Nearly 70 public and commercial galleries, including the Museum of Sydney and the Manly Art Gallery will be taking part!

It centres on the flagship Head On Portrait Photography Prize - winners for this will be announced at an event in Sydney tonight and we’ll be sure to post pics early next week.

Apart from this, the festival will feature numerous events for anyone interested in photography. These will include a retrospective of Oculi (one of Australia’s top photojournalists’ collectives), a retrospective of the late Rennie Ellis, a series of retro-style posters by artist Anne Zahalka exhibiting in four pubs around Newtown and an exhibition of the work by André Villers, a French photographer, who worked closely with Picasso in the 1950s.
 
Other festival events include ‘Head Off’ showcasing Australian landscapes on large canvases at Paddington Reservoir, a two-day seminar and a mini trade show. Open studios and workshops will be featured as well as a series of multi-media slideshow screenings.

Head On Festival runs from 29 April – 5 June 2010. We definitely recommend you check out the program!

We’ll of course be keeping you up to date with all the Head On Festival happenings on this blog.