Australian photographer George Fetting has had a love affair with photography all his life. “I blame my mother and the National Geographic subscription at the age of 10 for my…
Author Alison Stieven Taylor
2015 marks the 6th outing of Sydney’s Head On Photo Festival, which is Australia’s largest photographic event. This year Moshe Rosenzveig, the festival’s director, has programmed an eclectic group of…
Hand-coloured photographs date back to the mid 1800s when portraits were enhanced with spots of red on the cheeks and lips, or coloured in their entirety as a way of…
The notion of identity and exploring our other ‘selves’ is a subject that has influenced the work of Canadian photographer and digital media artist Pierre Dalpé for more than 20…
The remote reaches of our planet hold fascination for many. From the comfort of our heated homes we harbour romanticised views of explorers and scientists working in fantastical locations like…
Celebrating this multiplicity is at the heart of the portraits that feature in a new exhibition by Sydney photographer Louise Whelan: African/Australians. This body of work is part of a…
In her latest series, ‘Rococo’, Australian fine art photographer Alexia Sinclair has gone back to the 18th Century, and the Court of Versailles with the protagonist, the flamboyant Madame de Pompadour. Alexia…
This year Australia has a new photography festival to add to the calendar: Photobook Melbourne. The brainchild of fine art photographer and designer, and now Festival Director, Heidi Romano, and…
In a new exhibition at Melbourne’s Monash Gallery of Art – Dreams and Imagination: Light in the Modern City – curator Melissa Miles has selected a diverse range of artists…
From the opening pictures in ‘Daybreak in Myanmar’ it is clear that documentary photographer Geoffrey Hiller is a master at finding the vantage points from which to tap into the…