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Since its nascent years photography has been considered ‘the people’s art’ due to its accessibility. Yet early on there was a line drawn in the sand between the professional and…

A holiday to Iceland in 2013 provided an unexpected opportunity for 26-year-old Perth photographer Jarrad Seng to experiment with aerial landscape photography the outcome of which is a stunning collection…

When Irish-born photographer James Horan was growing up in a housing commission estate in Limerick he was warned to keep away from the ‘travellers’ as the Irish gypsies are known.…

In the early 1970s Sydney photographer Leon Gregory was an aspiring actor who made ends meet by shooting portfolios for his fellow thespians. In his spare time he used his…

Iconic photojournalist Don McCullin once said that it wasn’t necessary for photographers to travel far from home to find worthwhile documentary stories citing his series of the homeless in the…

The Mnemonics is an Australian photography ensemble with members based in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Drawing their name from the Titan Goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne, this ensemble uses mobile photography…

Melbourne photographer Nicola Dracoulis’ exploration of nine young people living in Rio’s favelas is gripping. Shot in 2006 and 2013 in this series of portraits Dracoulis revisits the same people…

From the rafters of a church in the backstreets of inner Sydney hang swathes of silk. They gently sway in the breeze as it floats through the lead light doors…

In October 1946 several thousand German specialists working in aeronautical engineering were forcibly relocated, along with their families, to the Soviet Union, where they were obliged to work for the…

We are in Norilsk, a mining town situated in Siberia, 400 km north of the Polar Circle. With its 170,000 inhabitants, it is the biggest town in the Far North.…