Murray Fredericks previously photographed a series of large-scale landscape photographs with fire as their central theme. While shooting, he filmed BLAZE, an observational documentary by Academy Award-nominated team Bentley Dean (director) and Tania Nehme (editor). From the start of his career Fredericks process has involved prolonged solo journeys to remote and often extreme locations.

Using non-destructive methods, Fredericks sets blazing trees, and often simply flame itself, against vast flooded lakes and river systems that have defined the interior of Australia over the La-Nina cycles of 2021 and 2022.

Saturday 5 November
5 PM – 6 PM (Sydney AEDT) film premiere – BLAZE at the Bondi Pavilion in the High tide room. 

Angela Stretch went to Eastside’s Bondi Studio to speak with the exhibiting photographers: Moshe Rosenzveig OAM, Head On Photo Festival Founder, Creative Director and lead curator; John Donegan, Photojournalist;  Jake Nowakowski, news photographer; Serena Dzenis, is a lens-based artist from Australia who resides in Iceland; Murray Fredericks, photographer and Phil Bayly, Sydney-based photographer who has travelled and exhibited worldwide since the 1970s.

Presented in six stories due to technical issues on the day of broadcast, Friday, 4 November 2022.  The first story is with Moshe Rosenzveig OAM, the founder, creative director and lead curator of the Head On Photo Festival, who joins us to provide an  insight into this year’s Head On Photo Festival program.

Arts Friday acknowledge the custodians of the Gadigal, Bidiagal and Birrabirragal clans from which the program has been produced at Eastside Radio’s Bondi Pavilion Studio at Bondi Beach.