Moshe Rosenzveig OAM

NEW … Perth Head On Photo Festival … and “Paper Tigers” …

… two pieces of exciting Head On news !!

Firstly … the Head On Photo Festival soon arrives in PERTH for the first time. Secondly … one of the featured exhibitions in the new Perth Festival is “Paper Tigers” … the significant exhibition (and book) of the work of Australian based photojournalists co-curated/collected by Head On’s Moshe Rosenvzeig OAM and myself !

The new festival launches on 31st January and runs through till the 1st of March … and showcases world class photography exhibitions in venues around the city … amongst them “Paper Tigers”, the “Head On Portrait Prize” and the new WA specific “WA Life Photo Awards”.

This will be the fifth showing of the “Paper Tigers” work of 60 photojournalists … a collection of recent historic and memorable journalistic imagery by Australia’s best.It was first exhibited at the 2020 Head On Photo Festival (during Covid) at the Twenty Twenty Six Gallery in Bondi. Subsequently, it has graced the Delmar Gallery in Ashfield Sydney (2022), The Muse Gallery in Ultimo Sydney (2023) and the Court House Gallery in Cairns (2025).

In Perth “Paper Tigers” will prominently hang in The Foyer, Palace Tower on Saint Georges Terrace. Definitely worth a first, second or fifth look !

Below … (if really needed) … is a teaser image of seven of the sixty images that comprise “Paper Tigers” … clockwise from twelve o’clock … my image of beaten asylum seeker Abdullahtif on Manus Island (©Brian Cassey), ©Ashley Crowther, ©David Dare Parker, ©Eddie Safarik, ©Stephen Dupont, ©Nick Moir and ©Dean Sewell.

Thanks to all our contributing “Paper Tigers” photojournalists … Alex Coppel, Andrew Chapman, Angela Wylie, Ashley Crowther, Barbara McGrady, Ben Bohane, Brendan Beirne, Brian Cassey, Chris Hopkins, Craig Golding, Craig Greenhill, Darrian Traynor, Dave Tacon, David Dare Parker, David Gray, Dean Lewins, Dean Sewell, Delly Carr, Eddie Safarik, Edwina Pickles, Gerrit Fokkema, Glenn Campbell, Glenn Lockitch, Grant Wells, Helga Salwe, Ilana Rose, Jaime Murcia, Jake Nowakowski, Janie Barrett, Jessica Hromas, John Donegan, John French, Justin McManus, Louise Kennerley, Luis Ascui, Mark Crusty Baker, Martine Perret, Max Mason Hubers, Meredith O’Shea, Merv Bishop, Michael Amendolia, Michael Coyne, Moshe Rosenzveig OAM, Nic Walker, Nick Moir, Nicola Bailey, Noel Butcher, Paul Blackmore, Penny Stephens, Peter Solness, Richard Wainwright, Rick Stevens, Rob Maccoll, Robert McFarlane, Simon O’Dwyer, Stephen Dupont, Sylvia Liber, Tim Page, Tobias Titz, Tracey Nearmy.

Then there’s the sad bit 🙁 … I won’t be there !  Have had a trip back to Blighty and Europe planned for some time for the entire month of February !

Damn … 

Images ©

Massive ‘Alf’ at Arles, France … Next … Valencia, Spain …

… fabulous to be part of a major portrait photography exhibition in Arles, France  … with my work “100 Years & 3 Weeks – Alf Neal OAM” exhibited over two and a half metres high overlooking the majestic Rhone River bank.

‘Alf’ wasn’t on his own … the river side walls were covered with scores of large images by the best portrait photographers from around the planet which made up the Art-Icon exhibit “Faces” (“Visages”) …. a major draw card in the just concluded 2025 Arles International Photo Festival (Rencontres d’Arles).

Sadly unable to travel to France for the show, It has been my real pleasure to vicariously enjoy it via the many photographers, both “Faces” participants and festival guests, who were lucky enough to ‘be there’ and nice enough to post images of the works very literally ‘on the walls’.

Good friends, Head On Photo Festival director Moshe Rosenzveig OAM and Pulitzer winner Michael Robinson Chávez, were attending the festival in Arles and took time out to make and send me pics of the exhibition and my ‘Alf’ work … whilst many of the “Faces” artists in attendance also splashed images around social media for those unable to get there ( See images below 🙂 ).

The good news continues … the fantastic exhibition  of photographic portraiture now moves on to the French town of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in the Camargue National Park later in August before travelling to Spain for the Valencia Photo Festival for September and October. 

‘Alf’ sure does get around … 

There is also a physical pictorial book of the “Faces” portrait exhibition in the works.

Once again I’d like to thank Danila Tkachenko and Slavica Veselinovic (@shavi_veselinovic) from Art-Icon for their tireless work creating this massive exhibition of poraiture and taking it to the World.

Images (from top) ©Brian Cassey, ©Michael Robinson Chávez, ©Moshe Rosenvzeig OAM (all featuring my ‘Alf’ image) … and ©Costa Corbas (the “Faces” exhibition on the banks of the Rhone River.) … Thanks Guys!

ABC Radio … on 3 NEW Exhibitions …

Very pleased to be interviewed by ABC Radio’s wonderful Drive presenter Charlie McKillop on the morning of the opening of three exhibitions in Cairns that I am more than heavily involved in.

The three exhibitions are spread across both the Court House Gallery and the new adjoining Mulgrave Gallery … the exhibition of my latest work “A Photographer’s Life – Part 3 – Portraits” … the exhibition of the work of Australian photojournalists that I curated alongside Head On Photo Festival Director Moshe Rosenzveig OAM, “Paper Tigers – An Anthology of Australian Photojournalism” … and the resulting photojournalism work from my mentorship of Trinity Bay High School visual arts students, “Word on the Street”.

Have known ABC’s Charlie for many years … she’s a great interviewer who makes sure she has completed all the research on her interviewees. It’s really just a friendly rewarding chat … ‘on air’. Thanks Charlie !

Won’t go into too much detail about the exhibitions here and will let the interview itself ‘fill you in’.

It runs for ten minute and forty seconds.

There are many more details on the three exhibitions , the opening eve event and a set of photographs at my blog post here … https://www.briancasseyphotographer.com/blog/2025/01/three-exhibition-openings-in-cairns/

“A Photographer’s Life – Part 3 – Portrait” and “Word on the Street” run till 29th February at the Mulgrave Gallery whilst “Paper Tigers’ finishes on the 22rd February at the Court House Gallery.

THREE Exhibition Openings in Cairns …

Two weeks since the opening of three exhibitions at the adjoining Mulgrave and Court House Galleries in Cairns.

Really stoked to see my new exhibition of 35 portraits “A Photographer’s Life – Part 3 – Portraits” … the collection I curated alongside Head On Photo Festival Director Moshe Rosenzveig “Paper Tigers – An Anthology of Australian Photojournalism” … and the work of Trinity Bay High School students that I mentored and edited with Cairns Galleries curator Chris Stannard “Word on the Street” … all opening simultaneously on the lawn between the galleries.

It was a brilliant and amazingly well attended evening.

Moshe Rosenzveig flew up from Sydney to perform the official exhibition openings under the evenings very threatening skies … and also joined me the following day hosting our artist/curators talks.

It is the first time that “Paper Tigers” has been shown outside of Sydney … and it was a real pleasure to see the sixty works by Australia’s wonderful photojournalist community on the expansive walls of the Court House Gallery … including my 2016 Nikon Walkley Portrait Prize winner “Abdullatif – Beaten Asylum Seeker” (pic 5 below 🙂 ). Was a real (lengthy and sometimes complicated) pleasure to work with Moshe to put this significant collection together. The exhibition includes many examples of Australian photojournalism that are historic and helped shaped the face of the country. VERY well worth a visit and a long long look.

My exhibition of ‘Portraits’ is a logical extension of my two earlier exhibitions … A Photographer’s Life Parts 1 & 2. Part One was exhibited in The Tanks Arts Centre in 2017 … and Part Two in the Court House Gallery in 2021. Together they documented not only my involvement in photography from a very early age and across the decades, but also the changes in photojournalism and the media environment. Part Three demonstrates the move more to portraiture from the more traditional and difficult to obtain (and more expensive) pure photojournalism. It also contains several of my fondest and most emotional images. Great to see some of the images projected the size of a house too !

“Word on the Street” is the product of my connections over the years with Trinity Bay High School and their visual arts students and teachers. I have judged and presented their annual photographic portrait prize for near a decade and have many times provided the students with class room talks and street walks where we explored photography and photojournalism. The catalyst for this particular exhibit was a chat with Cairns Galleries curator Chris Stannard (left in image 4). We mentored the students in photojournalism and encouraged them to produce work whilst charging young cadet journalist Isaac Colman with the task of writing their stories. A very rewarding and successful exercise …

Must, must … hugely thank Chris Stannard and all at the galleries staff (Andy, Narelle, Jilara, Laurence etc etc) who worked so hard to put these exhibitions together … Moshe for his time, expertise, words, camaraderie and attendance … the visual arts students and teachers from TBHS … my wonderful subjects (Vale Alf, George S, George C and Desley) … and all who taken the time out to be there on the opening eve or have subsequently walked through the gallery doors !

Also grateful to Charlie McKillop at ABC Radio who very nicely interviewed me on exhibition opening morning for her ‘Drive’ segment. You may listen to that interview here if you have ten minutes and forty seconds to spare.

Plenty of time left to take in the exhibitions … “Paper Tigers” runs to the 23rd of February … whilst “A Photographer’s Life – Part 3 – Portraits” and “Word on the Street” have both been extended until the 29th February. I may even catch you there 😉 .

I do hope to have some fascinating ‘360 degree’ videos of the exhibitions very soon.

In pics below … Mulgrave Gallery entry to “A Photographer’s Life – Part 3 – Portraits” and “Word on the Street” during an accompanying musical event – featuring my image “The Kids of Ali Curung” … my exhibit image “George at the Bus Stop” projected at dusk … some of my portraits on the walls of the Mulgrave Gallery … Cairns Galleries Chris Stannard at the Court House entry to “Paper Tigers” … my work :Abdullatif – Beaten Asylum Seeker” in the Court House Gallery “Paper Tigers” collection … projection of my work “Veronica – Where Home Brew Kills” late on opening evening … lastly, Head On’s Moshe Rosenzveig (right), myself (left – a VERY rare pic), friends from the Cairns photographic community Shaz Spannenburg, Peter Rossi, Charmaine Heyer, Polly Fenton with (rear) Robert Gray from Brisbane … at the Conservatory Bar ‘after launch’ ‘do.

Images © Brian Cassey … except second © Cristina Bevilacqua … and bottom © Moshe Rosenzveig/Sarah Hulgill