Australian intellectual property advocates have welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to further public consultation before determining whether to adopt a potentially harmful US-style fair use exception to copyright infringement. The consultation period will begin in 2018. The Government issued its … Continue reading
Nikon has been accused of ‘not valuing women in photography‘ after it assigned 32 men, and not a single female, to promote the D850 in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. A series of marketing photos were published online, showing … Continue reading
The WA Liberal Party has called for a retrospective Bill Henson exhibition at the Art Gallery of WA (AGWA) to be shut down for showing child nudity. The 23 images, curated by Susan Van Wyk from the National Gallery of … Continue reading
Melbourne-born photographer Polly Borland has won the $25,000 2017 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award for her ‘compelling, edgy, and uncanny’ portrait, Two Heads. Borland is known for producing experimental and perplex pictures. She has photographed celebrities including Queen … Continue reading
Snappr, an on-demand photography service which offers shoots from $59, was given a big boost during an ‘infomercial’ on Channel 7’s breakfast program Sunrise. The four-minute advertorial segment had a clear message: Snappr is offering the cheapest photography in the … Continue reading
It’s all over for fake Brazilian war photographer, Eduardo Martins, whose fraudulent career has come to an end after he was caught stealing other photographers’ work. Martins – not his real name – managed to trick and be published by … Continue reading
The September release of Apple’s new iOS11 brings with it a new default stills file format – HEIF or High Efficiency Image Format. It’s claimed to do the compression that JPEG does in half the file size. Or alternatively, doubles … Continue reading
Nikon Australia ‘went bigly’ this week with the D850 launch event. It invited photographers from around Australia to Sydney for an exclusive hands-on experience with the hot new camera. The launch took place at The Venue, Alexandria, an huge warehouse … Continue reading
‘Superficial and materialistic’, ‘too commercial’, ‘grotesque and beautiful’, and ‘inspirational’, are the polarising terms often used to describe pictures by renowned fashion photographer, David LaChapelle, whose exhibition is the centrepiece of the seventh Ballarat International Foto Biennale (BIFB). BIFB is … Continue reading
Rotolight Neo 2 an ‘industry first’…Sekonic, PocketWizard to Kayell…Pretty fly for a hard drive… Rotolight Neo 2 an ‘industry first’ British LED lighting manufacturer Rotolight has announced the launch of Neo 2 (aka ‘NEO 2’) ‘an industry-first, all in one … Continue reading
