Head On Festival: every photograph tells a virtual story

Rather than cancel, organisers of the annual Head On Photo Festival announced they would deliver the 2020 program online

Dr Cherine Fahd, Senior Lecturer, School of Design

The festival, established in 2008, showcases documentary photography, a style commonly associated with photojournalism and other forms of reportage. By definition, documentary images “appear unstaged”, portraying everyday scenes, world events, people and places, captured this year at a time of intense change and unprecedented events.

Like many international photo festivals, there are conventional images galore. But thankfully, there are also a few surprises...

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