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Very happy to have been selected as a finalist in the 2026 Head On Portrait Prize. Always a privilege to have my work included alongside so many talented photographers.

Congratulations to all the other finalists, and thank you to the judges and the team at Head On.

The finalist images will be on display at Bondi Pavilion Gallery from 7 November. @headonphotofest by @sharsent

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One of the unexpected benefits of having spent far too many years taking photographs is that there’s usually something hiding on a hard drive that you’ve completely forgotten about.

A few months ago, while looking for reference for a commercial treatment, I came across these photographs from Lake Mungo, made back in 2010.

Thanks to BLAST they now have somewhere to live other than a hard drive. Issue 21 Lake Mungo.

I would like to acknowledge the Paakantji, Ngyiampaa and Mutthi Mutthi peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which this work was made, and pay my respects to their Elders, past and present.

I acknowledge their enduring connection to Country, culture and community.

Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. by @sharsent

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World Photography Day apparently. I’ve been celebrating since before it had a hashtag, every single day, whether anyone’s watching or not.

But since the internet insists on an occasion: why not indulge yourself and head over to my website and download all 21 issues of BLAST. The whole back catalogue. No email required, no catch, just go and take it. by @sharsent

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A series of photographs made at Lake Mungo in 2010

Issue 21 out now. by @sharsent

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Lake Mungo sits within the Willandra Lakes Region in south-western New South Wales. Despite its name, there hasn’t been a lake there for around 15,000 years. What remains is a vast landscape shaped by wind, water and time, and one of the most archaeologically and culturally significant places in Australia.

Issue 21 out now by @sharsent

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BLAST has fallen a little behind this year. Luckily, here’s one I prepared earlier.

These photographs were made at Lake Mungo in 2010, during a commercial shoot that left me with a couple of unexpected days to simply wander around with a camera.

Sixteen years later, they’ve finally found somewhere to live.

New issue of BLAST. Out now free download best views on a laptop or desktop. by @sharsent

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Out now: BLAST Issue #20 – It’s a Game of Two Halves.

With the World Cup in full swing, it felt like the right time to gather together some of the football photographs that have quietly accumulated over the years.

This isn’t a carefully curated body of work. It’s more a collection of photographs I’ve stumbled across while travelling. Some are nothing more than moments noticed in passing. Others, like the photographs of Wayne Rooney and a handful of other players, only exist because I happened to be on a commissioned shoot and pointed the camera in a slightly different direction for a few minutes.

Think of it less as a football portfolio and more as the photographic equivalent of extra time. Pictures that didn’t have a job to do, but somehow deserved a place to exist anyway.
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Treat yourself. by @sharsent

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Out now, Issue 20 of BLAST, It’s a Game of Two Halves,

If you know me, you’ll know football sits just behind photography in the list of things I love. (Family and friends obviously come first, I felt that was worth clarifying before I get myself into trouble.) I’ve even been known to schedule the odd family gathering around a fixture list. Priorities are important.

There are certain subjects that keep finding their way back into your work, whether you intend them to or not. For me, football has always been one of them.

Issue 20 of BLAST, It’s a Game of Two Halves, is a chance to look back through the archive and pull together some of those pictures. It’s not a chronological project or even a particularly cohesive one. It’s simply a collection of photographs connected by a game that’s quietly fuelled both my personal work and my commercial career for decades. by @sharsent

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28,948 young lives without a stable home. Every child matters. by @sharsent

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Murray Bartlett, Sydney, 2025. Issue 19. This issue brings together portraits made over the past fifteen years. Some are recent, others are photographs I hadn’t looked at in quite a while.Different cameras. Different cities. Different people sitting in front of the lens. The same curiosity. The same search for presence.The same attempt to make something lasting from a very brief encounter. by @sharsent

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Shenge Kaphoaraoh, Tribeca, NY.

This new issue, Portraits II, brings together photographs made over roughly the past fifteen years. Some are recent, others I hadn’t looked at in quite a while. What struck me while putting the issue together was how consistent the act itself has remained. Technology changes, aesthetics shift, but the process of making a portrait is still remarkably simple. Someone agrees to sit. A conversation unfolds. Light falls across a face. You wait for something that feels honest to appear. The photographs in this issue are drawn from many of those moments, actors, artists, strangers and friends, all sitting down in front of the same camera at different points over the years. Looking back through them now, what interests me most is not how much has changed, but how much has remained the same. The same curiosity. The same search for presence. The same attempt to make something lasting from a very brief encounter. by @sharsent

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Sarah, Brooklyn, NY. Circa 2015. From BLAST ISSUE #19 While putting this issue together I found myself going back through a lot of older work. What interested me wasn’t so much how the photographs had changed, but how the act of making them hadn’t.The same curiosity. The same search for presence. The same attempt to make something lasting from a brief encounter. by @sharsent

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