Perth photographer, Chris Saunders, has won the AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year Award for a portfolio of abstract aerial images. While an AIPP member for only three years, Chris has pocketed several awards including the 2018 AIPP WA … Continue reading
Entrepreneurial professional photographers are working on inventive new ways to monetise the industry. Style Pose Click is a new online photography supplier directory, which plans to create a paid, subscription-based marketing network for photo retailers and service providers. ProCounter is … Continue reading
‘Photojournalism has a sexual harassment problem‘. Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), a US magazine for working journalists, is attempting to spearhead a #Metoo campaign within the US photojournalism industry. CJR has published Photojournalism’s moment of reckoning, a 9500-word special report based … Continue reading
The Imaging and Digital Entertainment Association (IDEA), which assumes the position in the Australian photographic industry of the wholesalers’ and manufacturers’ trade association, will not, as previously indicated, be holding any industry events in 2018. Last August PhotoCounter reported that … Continue reading
Head On Photo Festival 2019 is calling for exhibition submissions from photographers and photo artists, curators, gallery managers to be considered for next year’s event in Sydney. The submission deadline is July 29. All work, across the field of stills … Continue reading
The AIPP Epson State Award winners have been revealed, after several months of the event visiting each corner of Australia. In something of a trial of the ‘new regime’, the contest ran smoothly, proving that each AIPP State Council had … Continue reading
Acer is aiming its new ProDesigner BM270, a 4K UHD HDR 27-inch display monitor, at imaging professionals and visual artists. The monitor is Acer’s entrance into the high-end professional image market, with a colour palette up to 1000nits brightness, advanced … Continue reading
The European Union Parliament has shot down proposed copyright reform which may have forced content aggregating platforms, like Google and Facebook, to license material hosted on its servers. After 20 years without major amendments, the EU’s Directive of Copyright in … Continue reading
Interesting new entrepreneurial start-up businesses are emerging in the photo industry, creating a fresh line of resources for established and up-and-coming professional photographers to tap into. A couple of photography-related start-ups have recently popped up on ProCounter‘s radar (ie, e-mail … Continue reading
With Photokina less than three months away we are approaching ‘Peak Rumour’, the latest and greatest being that Nikon will – perhaps in late July – announce not one but two full-frame mirrorless interchangeable cameras, one at 24-megapxels and one … Continue reading
