Stearman Press launch six sheet 4×5 processing system
US company Stearman Press has launched a six sheet version of their 4x5 processing tank the SP-445. We reviewed the original version in June 2017,…
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Call for entries: Head On Awards
Head On Photo Festival is an international annual photography festival based in Sydney, Australia, showing emerging and established photo-artists. It was founded in 2004 with the first Head On…
Shea Kirk wins the 2023 National Portrait Prize
Melbourne based large format photographer Shea Kirk has won the National Portrait Gallery’s Portrait Prize for 2023. Shea’s portrait of friend and colleague Emma Armstrong-Porter…
Melbourne’s Work In Process Lab to close
Melbourne’s Work In Process (WIP Lab) has just announced that it’s closing at the end of July this year. WIP Lab has been around for…
Exhibition: Relicts – Mark Darragh
Relicts explores the past, present, and future of Australia’s temperate and alpine flora. Many of the species and plant communities photographed can be described as…
Mount Arapiles, photography, and the dark pastoral – Gary Sauer-Thompson. Part two
I initially visited and explored Mount Arapiles with the now defunct Melbourne-based Friends of Photography Group. I was intrigued by how the state park was surrounded by…
Exhibition: Sheet Film
An Overview of work made in Victoria ‘In an age of short attention spans and instant gratification, that has applied to all aspects of life,…
Ilford’s ultra large format, custom & specialist film ordering window for 2023
Ilford’s annual window for ordering specialty and custom sheet film sizes is now open. Ilford is offering FP4 plus, HP5 plus and Delta 100 in…
Mount Arapiles, photography, and the dark pastoral – Gary Sauer-Thompson. Part one
A key issue in contemporary photography is how can photography address climate change, given the convincing account by climate science with respect to the geological…