Why the ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry could see photographers sleepwalking into image-sharing danger If you’re up to date on the trials of Facebook and…
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In September 2016 my photography agents, Vaughn-Hannigan, abruptly closed their doors after 10 years in business. Since then I have been without an agent, representing myself, and I thought I would look back and ask the question which has been lingering with me through this time: to agent or not to agent?
Before media organisations and professional associations publicly cut ties with Gold Walkley Award-winning Australian photojournalist Andrew Quilty due to allegations of 'inappropriate behaviour', there should have been an investigation to verify and flesh out the details.
It comes across as mean-spirited, unfair and lacking any transparency for media organisations to announce their draconian punishments against Andrew Quilty without providing the most basic details of the accusations, or flagging any further investigation into the claims on which those punishments are based.
Before her death in 2010 my paternal grandmother gave me a box of family photographs. It contained mostly black and white images taken between 1950…
What the farnarkling hell is happening to the Ballarat International Foto Biennale? At the time I thought it passing strange that the first commission and artist-in-residence…
Last week Inside Imaging ran an opinion piece, Was more diligence due from AIPP?. The article touched on whether the Institute should accept responsibility for…
The dramatic announcement last week from the AIPP that multi-APPA-winning photographer Lisa Saad was to have all those awards taken from her and given to photographers who haven’t broken the competition rules included an assertion which grated with many people...
We have closed down our Comments facility on the Lisa Saad story. However one relevant and well-constructed Letter to the Editor-type contribution we thought worth re-publishing…
The latest financial results from Japanese camera manufacturers indicate that Sony has quietly assumed the mantle of market leadership in cameras from long time leader,…