Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, ruler of France from 1848 to 1870, was 'the most enthusiastic supporter of photography in all of Europe'. He stocked his libraries with countless photographs of bridges, parks, army camps, railways, and palaces. These structures were his most important achievements and he commissioned a panoply of photographers to celebrate them.
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For many years I have been interested in what happens to photographers’ whole of life archives — only a fraction of which will be accepted for gift or purchase by large public collections.
Canon’s EOS R5 revolutionary 8K video capabilities now appear half baked and crippled by overheating issues. But before we got here, the Canon marketing department’s…
The sale of the Olympus camera division to Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) may result in removing the ‘Olympus’ label from camera and lens products and,…
Up until recently, Australia’s enthusiast photo media was going broke slowly relying on advertising support from local photo equipment distributors and specialist retailers. Now there’s…
Over the last few weeks, photographs in the news and on social media have documented our behaviour in response to COVID-19. Panic buying of pasta,…
I am no different to anybody else out there. Early last week I had my own mini-meltdown and put myself to bed for the afternoon when it all became too overwhelming. When I got up, I blasted myself in the shower, took the dog for a long walk and thought, 'Okay, do I sink or do I swim?’.
In Australia, we are now just a little over two weeks into the far-reaching social, lifestyle, business and economic impacts of COVID-19. From a health standpoint, it is our society’s number one priority. From a business perspective, it is too early to say precisely what the economic impacts will be.
Tough restrictions on Australian weddings now allow only five people to attend, leaving the entire wedding industry without much work for the foreseeable future. But…
Back in the 1980s, a young marketing analyst called Faith Popcorn, one of the first soothsayers for the secular age we now call 'futurologists', came up with the notion of 'cocooning'. What she didn't see coming was the COVID-19 world, in which cocooning is becoming compulsory!