Conor Heffernan, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
Greek statues, the Napoleonic wars and the advent of photography all played a role.
Japanese author Yukio Mishima speaks to Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers at Tokyo’s military garrison station on Nov. 25, 1970.
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Kirsten Cather, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
Like a Rorschach test, the incident offers limitless interpretations. But newly published photographs of Yukio Mishima in his final weeks alive show an artist obsessed with scripting out death.
Dragon springtails (pictured) are widely distributed in forests of eastern Australia — yet they’re still largely unknown to science.
Nick Porch
Australia's invertebrates have an ancient lineage and a fascinating evolution. Get up close with macrophotography to discover tiny, unique animals you've probably never seen before.
Opiate of Opulence, from the series Horror Has A Face, Fiona Foley, 2017.
Courtesy of Andrew Baker Art Dealer
The Body Electric features ground-breaking photography and video from the 1960s, 70s and 80s, alongside more recent work from Australian and international artists.
Exclusive: the recent discovery of probably the oldest known surviving photograph of a Māori sheds light on the remarkable subject of Taika Waititi's new film project.
‘With Dad,’ Marlborough, Massachusetts, Oct. 29, 1998.
Stephen DiRado
What do you do when the subject is a disease as much as a person, and when the disease then subsumes the person – to the point where he can't recognize his own son?
Dorothea Lange’s famous Migrant Mother portrait, showing a mother of seven children in California, 1936.
US Library of Congress/Flickr
Cherine Fahd, University of Technology Sydney and Sara Oscar, University of Technology Sydney
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.
Marcia Macmillan’s winning landscape photograph: Whimsical Warrior.
Head On Festival
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.
Photographer Ansel Adams poses on a bluff with his camera.
Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS/VCG via Getty Images
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.
At Echo Point lookout in Katoomba, NSW, people watch smoke from the Green Wattle Creek fire beyond The Three Sisters rock formation.
AAP/Steven Saphore
Cherine Fahd, University of Technology Sydney and Sara Oscar, University of Technology Sydney
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.
At events like the spring races, it’s important journalists actually interact with people when they photograph them.
AAP Image/James Ross
Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne