John Donegan is an artist with a background in photojournalism. His artistic practice searches for the beauty in ordinary rhythms of everyday life, often highlighting the seemingly unimportant, insignificant, or unseen. The Broken Creek marks a turning point, whereby Donegan is exploring finding peace within nature and himself.
John Donegan, Photojournalist
Exhibition: The Broken Creek | – 12 November 2022
Stanley Street Gallery
Head On Photo Festival | 4 – 20 November 2022
Arts Friday’s 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 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.