Author Alison Stieven Taylor

Hoda Afshar’s series "Under Western Eyes" comprises digitally manipulated photographs that are designed to shift the conversation around the representation of Islamic women as subjugated and suppressed. Afshar, who is…

At the age of 19 Sue Ford was one of only two women enrolled in the photography course at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). It was 1962 and…

The Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney (AGNSW) has been collecting Australian photography since the 1970s and its commitment to the medium is unwavering. One of the first institutions in…

Having taken photographs in both hemispheres there is no doubt the light in Australia, and New Zealand, is very different to the softer light in Europe, or the light of…

Considered one of the world's great industrial and architectural photographers, Wolfgang Sievers (1913-2007), a student of Bauhaus, fled Nazi Germany for Australia at the outbreak of WWII. In 1939 he…

Bill Henson is considered one of Australia’s greatest living photographers. In his latest exhibition Henson has taken on the role of curator choosing around 100 works from the large collection…

In her latest exhibition, “In Tenebris”, which is Latin for ‘in darkness’, photographic artist Rebecca Dagnall explores the concept of the Australian gothic drawing on colonial literature which she says is where…

“Everyone has their little secrets,” says Australian photographic artist Patricia Casey. “Sometimes these little secrets are pleasurable, sometimes not, and this series of works is a meditation on that theme.” In “Little…