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The photograph that saved the Franklin River
Notes from the frontlines of Australia’s bushfire crisis
The 2019/2020 austral summer is arguably the worst season on record for bushfire-related destruction to Australia. Since the season began in October, some 1300 homes have been destroyed so far, with 160 fires still blazing in NSW alone at the time of writing. 23 people have died with 28
A conversation with Australian photojournalist, Kate Geraghty
Images of war are often synonymous with death and rubble, the destruction of entire cities and the victimisation of many, leaving us feeling distant and helpless. While the collective history of conflict images has often seen these descriptions reiterated in visual tropes, photography also has the power to cut through
Incidental recordings & peculiar aberrations in Fraser Stanley’s Railcam
‘Railfans’ or ‘foamers’ — similar to birdwatchers — comprise a niche but very entrenched group of hobbyists in Australia: train-watchers. To the surprise of many Australians and to Melbourne-based photographer Fraser Stanley, so ardent is this subculture about locomotives that some have taken to constructing elaborate networks of motion sensitive cameras along
Paul Blackmore’s “Heat” kicks off Head On 2019
Sydney-based photojournalist Paul Blackmore’s exhibition Heat has kicked off the 2019 Head On photo festival to a very warm reception at Bondi Pavilion.
Blackmore’s work – the product of four consecutive summers photographing around Sydney’s beaches examines Australian coastal culture and vernacular with the resultant body of work
The Moran Prize-winning photograph that was almost lost in the post
The themes present in Trent Mitchell’s Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize-winning photograph of 2015 resonated with huge swaths of the Australian populace. At the time, the debate over sharks in this country and how best we deal with them after a string of attacks during the previous summer was raging.