In the 10 years since Google Street View launched, the platform has provided ample fodder for artists, who have used it to comment on surveillance, poverty and gentrification.
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A better understanding of science among ordinary people validates the vast amounts of public funds spent on scientific research.
Will recent photos of chemical attack victims in Syria provoke a short-term emotional reaction or a sustained humanitarian campaign?
Are we really filtering out our ability to cope with our own imperfections?
Exploring the role and limits of photography is a task that appears all the more relevant in the era of fake news.
Unlike Beyoncé, a group of Australian women documenting their own pregnancies captured mundane images of track pants, barren wardrobes and self-portraits in a bathroom mirror.
What’s the proper way to behave at a Holocaust memorial? Is that even the right question?
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition features sumptuous images: from giant cuttlefish courting to a vertigo-inducing portrait of an orangutan taken with a GoPro camera.
In a year with demands of writing and editing a memoir, inspiration can be found in photography.
Castro realised early on in his revolution just how powerful a tool photography could be.
Noel Pearson has accused the ABC of racism in dwelling on indigenous alienation. But many advances in the status of Aboriginal Australians have been prompted by revealing ill-treatment, which is why Ms Dhu’s family want footage of her last hours made public.
Selfies are blamed for encouraging everything from risky behaviour to rampant narcissism. But selfies can be potent acts of self-communication – and anyway, is self-regard a bad thing?
Social media is changing the way we travel, with people increasingly eager to visit Instagram-worthy destinations. Has a place’s visual appeal become more important than its history and authenticity?
It’s easier than ever to visually record our lives thanks to the smartphone and now Snapchat glasses, but many museums and other places are fighting a losing and misguided battle against the trend.
Hand over your travel photos and help build digital 3D recreations of threatened heritage sites.
Pokemon Go brought augmented reality to people’s attention, but dual camera smartphones will make it much more useful for the future.
Photographers can’t pay the bills with Instagram likes – but it’s pushing them to capture more spectacular images than ever before.
There’s a concern that images posted on social media run the risk of disrupting the accurate identification of people allegedly involved in a crime.
In 1967, as flower children across America marched against the Vietnam war, Diane Arbus chose to photograph a young man wearing a ‘Bomb Hanoi’ badge. What did she capture, about the boy and the time?
BBC One’s The Living and the Dead revels in the Victorians’ obsession with the supernatural and the limits of science.
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