At a time of pandemic, an extraordinary photographic project unfolded between sheets of clear plastic.
- Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney
The Body Electric features ground-breaking photography and video from the 1960s, 70s and 80s, alongside more recent work from Australian and international artists.
From Madonna and child to fierce matriarch, mothers have appeared in frame since photography began – even it sometimes they are just part of the furniture.
Carriageworks is not a conventional art space. It is a space of and for community.
The Head On Photo Festival showcases documentary photography. Luckily, it’s an artform that lends itself well to online display and celebration.
Au temps du confinement, les images d’un monde figé dans le temps et abandonné par l’homme suscitent une étrange fascination.
As cities, galleries and tourist destinations shut down across the world, news photographers are showing us our world anew.
Photographic works drawn from the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection explore fakery, mirrors and tricks of the light. But Shadow Catchers stops short of today’s digital doppelgangers.
This new play will feel familiar to those of us who grew up in Lebanese Australian families.
Instagram bushfire images cut through our news fatigue. This developing brand of photojournalism brings authenticity and a different sense of proximity.
Rarely seen in the family album are photographs of funerals, burials and the suffering of those who are left to mourn.
Collectable cigarette cards once depicted ‘exotic’ beauties, classified by the colonial eye. And today’s beauty contests still present women as exotic representatives of their nation.
There are more people of Middle Eastern heritage on Australian commercial TV than ever before - in drama, cooking, and Gogglebox.
Western media continues to sell Muslims as perpetrators of savagery, deprivation and torture. But a new exhibit by French-Algerian artist Kader Attia challenges us to see beyond these depictions.
All around us in Western media, young Arabic-looking men with beards equal terrorists. But maybe they’re just hipsters.
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