State Library Victoria has acquired over 60,000 images by the late maverick documentary photographer Rennie Ellis. This acquisition marks the final piece of the Library’s Ellis Archive, which totals over half a million images – the largest photo collection held … Continue reading
The Ballarat International Foto Biennale (BIFB) has announced the winner of the inaugural Martin Kantor Portrait Prize is photography student Elli Bardas, for her portrait of Vicky Vodor. Bardas has won $15,000, beating 150 other entries and 27 finalists with … Continue reading
A new generation of landscape photographers are partnering with tourism authorities to host events designed to promote destinations through user-generated content. Seven Australian ‘digital influencers‘, a millenial title for popular Instagram-based professional photographers, arrived in Port Macquarie last week to … Continue reading
B&H, the world’s largest photo retailer, has agreed to pay US$3.2 million in back wages to more than 1300 warehouse workers, after the US Department of Labor sued the company for allegations of ‘systemic hiring, compensation, and promotion discrimination, as … Continue reading
Jim’s Group, one of Australia’s largest franchise businesses, has moved into Photography and Drones with openings available around the country starting at $22,500. The AIPP has entered into an informal understanding with Jim’s, with Emerging Membership of the AIPP part … Continue reading
Imagine actually owning your own image editing software rather than just renting it. Imagine using your own personal asset management system to store your image collection, so you can access it any time you want, without needing to connect to … Continue reading
Nikon knees-ups…Too much monkey business…L&P creditors’ meeting… Nikon knees-ups A range of Nikon events in Europe and Asia in the next month adds weight to rumours of a pending launch (as opposed to an ‘announcement of the development’) of the … Continue reading
Lonely Planet has launched Trips, a photo-based self-publishing mobile app which will compete with Instagram by offering travellers a social media platform to share their journeys. It will also generate free content for Lonely Planet. Trips enables anyone to upload photos … Continue reading
Mikael Cho, founder of Unsplash – an online ‘photo community’ where contributors waive their copyright for free commercial use – has been slammed by photographers for creating a platform which devalues their skills. PDN Pulse was first to recently tear … Continue reading
Updated August 16: Fujifilm Australia is offering a $900 cashback for its GFX-50S medium format camera to photographers trading in selected camera models from Canon, Sony, Nikon, Hasselblad, Leica, Phase One, Pentax and Mamiya. No Fujifilm X-series cameras qualify for the … Continue reading
