Photographs of Ms Dhu and the fight for human rights
In 2023, the coroner’s inquest heard that officers believed Ms. Dhu to be “faking.” The inquest showed footage that reportedly…
Category: Photography
How photography and phrenology helped Abraham Lincoln become president
The US midterm election in Illinois’s District 12 is this year. Voters have to choose. They can choose between a calm and…
Desiring her authorship at the Melbourne Festival
Melbourne Festival has two events dedicated exclusively to Vivian Maier, the newly discovered Ayear’sn street photographer. The Centre for Contemporary…
Steven Shearer invoked intimacy in places people would least expect it
These photographs were blown up and displayed in billboards by March 30. The public was so angry that they only stayed on…
Why censoring photos of the press is wrong
When Destination NSW censored an outdoor photographic exhibition that was meant to be part of the vivid Sydney, they offended many more than the photographers…
A great photographer hidden behind the master of painting
In the inevitable tide of recognition of so many women artists of the past 20th century who passed simply as…
Exposed to a deluge of digital photos, we’re feeling the psychological
In a 2023 survey, the photo-sharing app Instagram supplanted Twitter as the social media platform considered “most important” by U.S. teens.…
Press photographers are needed to capture the first drafts of history
Hugh Dolan is the author of The Untold story Behind the Gallipoli Landings. In the Australian documentary Gallipoli From Above that aired recently…
Rediscovering a ‘lost’ Roman frontier from the air
Frontiers like Hadrian’s Wall are central to the study of the Roman Empire. By now, we might expect to have…
Science pictures can capture your attention and inspire curiosity
This first image shows the bright ring that forms as light bends around a blackhole that is 6.5 billion times…