Largely self-taught, Adams learned to harness the communicative power of photography during his years as a marketing photographer.
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Where once we subjected friends to post-holiday slideshows, now we share travel selfies live with a remote audience. This study teased out the tension between snapping and experiencing the trip.
Instagram bushfire images cut through our news fatigue. This developing brand of photojournalism brings authenticity and a different sense of proximity.
An archive project is restoring the secret history of Namibia’s resistance music culture from the 1950s to the late 1980s – suppressed and censored during apartheid but now touring the world.
When journalists don’t interact with the public, they risk relying on existing narratives and experiences to inform their coverage.
Just as domestic violence was once misunderstood and tolerated, many today fail to grasp how nude photographs can be wielded as weapons of abuse.
30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, covert surveillance images offer us an unparalleled look at the lives of people trying to escape from the east to the west.
Like the ‘Rocky Steps,’ the ‘Joker Stairs’ have become a mecca for moviegoers. But not all film-related tourism is the same.
A rare set of photographs of South Africa’s most famous jazz ensemble, the Blue Notes, has added valuable insights to the music archive
Many of the world’s greatest photographers focus on our shared human experience in a milestone exhibition.
Images of wildfires are powerful, but can make climate catastrophe seem like something spectacular and distant. So some artists are focusing on the plants and bugs in our immediate surroundings.
The cycles of life, in their fierce glory, are reflected in a stunning exhibition of nature photography.
Male and female artists have different perspectives to offer - and no less so within the photography world.
In the days before scuba technology, the celebrated photographer sought to capture the beauty of the reef by placing corals in an aquarium and shooting them. But under stress, they released algae.
Beautiful art can provide hope and healing.
Thousands of wildlife photographs are taken every day – they could prove very valuable for conservation.
Many cities have no standard method for counting the number of people who live in their cars. This means that their issues are often overlooked in policies designed to help the homeless.
Hidden for decades in a vault at the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation, the photographs depict a regime fixated on establishing order, meting out punishment and stoking nationalism.
People fall for fake photos regardless of whether they seem to come from Facebook or The New York Times. What actually helps?
Queerdom, an exhibition of photography and poetry, presents a history of queer and trans performance in Sydney that challenges recent narratives about queer life in Australia.
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