This Month
Australian artists set the world’s top photo festival abuzz
It’s the first time photographers from Down Under are showing at Les Rencontres d’Arles in the south of France, widely considered the most important show of its kind.
Glowing quoll shortlisted for science photography prize
A never-before-captured “biofluorescing” Eastern Quoll is among the 12 finalists of this year’s Beaker Street Science Photography Prize.
June
‘I was always constrained by budgets, but not with AI’
Phillip Toledano built his photography career with intimate images holding deeply personal meanings. He’s expanding his vision using artificial intelligence.
In Pictures: June 2025
As exciting as EOFY gets, our photographers managed to capture all the stories from retail, politics and pubs. Click through the links to read more.
In pictures: The Australian Stockbroker Awards
The stars of the Australian stockbroking industry turned out for the annual awards last night in Sydney.
February
Trump hangs his own mugshot in Oval Office
The photograph, taken after he was charged in Georgia on racketeering charges, has been mounted in a gold frame on a wall in the White House.
January
Who really took the Vietnam War’s most iconic photo?
Photographs don’t come much more influential than ‘Napalm Girl’, the 1972 image that supposedly hastened the end of the Vietnam War. But now its provenance has been sensationally disputed.
As AI becomes harder to detect, photography is having a renaissance
Many of the largest and most powerful art dealers in the US – and especially New York – are dedicating significant attention and real estate to photography.
October 2024
Iconic images of life, death and football fetch top dollar
A series of auctions suggests the market for big-name photographers is alive and well.
September 2024
How we got Australia’s most powerful to step into David Rowe’s world
We thought our Power listers might be reluctant to participate. Turns out, they loved it – more or less.
August 2024
Cool or dystopian? Google launches AI-powered phones
The tech giant has launched a new range of AI-packed phones, earbuds and watches. Here’s what they will do (if you really want them to).
Julian Burnside KC to part ways with classic industrial images
The barrister and his artist wife Kate Durham are selling 145 works by celebrated industrial photographer Wolfgang Sievers.
March 2024
‘A chook shed at the end of the universe’: at home with Bill Henson
Artists Bill Henson and Louise Hearman have turned the building that houses their studios and living quarters into an intriguing sanctuary.
Why the biggest celebrities in the world trust this photographer
New York-based artist Ryan McGinley has road-tripped with Brad Pitt, hung out with Kate Moss and got Troye Sivan to strip. Now he’s in Melbourne to explain what drives him.
How the discovery of old photos exposed an ancestor’s hidden talent
A young woman’s record of rural life in Australia in the late 1800s is finally getting its day in the sun after her great-granddaughter found her work in a Sydney attic.
February 2024
Why this new Samsung phone can help you be your best self
Samsung’s latest Galaxy S Ultra maintains its position as the most useful phone you can buy. So what if sometimes it gives you more than you bargained for?
November 2023
You can’t go wrong with these beautiful books for time-poor people
We’ve selected 14 image-driven options in which the pictures do the talking.
This may be the world’s highest-grossing photograph
A shot taken by a little-known New York commercial photographer has defied the laws of supply and demand for over three decades.
The Liquid Night: New York City through the eyes of Bill Henson
He took the photographs on the gritty streets around Time Square decades ago but never did anything with them – until he found them recently and had an epiphany.
The hot new thing in social media is here. Again
Lapse photo app has shot to No. 2 in the US on the Apple App Store’s free chart but will it last?