Olympus OM-2N film camera
The Olympus OM-2N is a 35mm film SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera that was manufactured by Olympus Corporation, a Japanese camera and optics company....
Police forensic artists explain Missing Persons age progressed images
If you have a minute, please look at these images of missing persons that have been 'age progressed' to show how the person might...
Fake Photo: Manipulated photography before Photoshop
Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop was a photographic exhibition held between 2012 and 2013 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Washington's National Gallery of...
Man Ray’s love-hate relationship with Hollywood
The Surrealist artist Man Ray struggled to balance the competing demands of his passion and his wallet
Man Ray was by no means the first...
Landscape photography in colonial Australia
Colonial history overflows with commodities. From the early 1800s, wool generated extraordinary wealth for squatters and pastoralists and substantial investment in the Australian colonies.
In...
Can a documentary photograph change the world?
“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.”
(W. Eugene Smith,...
John Berger on August Sander, Henri Cartier-Bresson & Paul Strand
During the first semester of the Magnum Photos-Speos Photo School's "Creative Documentary & Photojournalism Course" we were asked to briefly analyse John Berger's essay...
ANZACS evacuate from Suvla Bay at Gallipoli, Turkey
20th December. On this day in 1915, the ANZACs and allied troops were all evacuated off the Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey, marking the end of...
Photo scoop during the 1987 Fiji Coup
Blog update: General elections were held in Fiji on 14 December 2022 to elect the 55 members of the Fijian Parliament. Frank Bainimarama became...
Faked photos for Soviet propaganda
During the era of Stalinist Russia, it was a common practice to revise Soviet history by expunging inconvenient individuals, frequently men and women who...
