Photography

Martin Parr, one of Britain’s most acclaimed documentary photographers, died on December 06 aged 73 – just weeks before a major retrospective was due to open at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, France. The exhibition, Global Warning, running from January 30 to May 24, 2026, was planned in collaboration with Parr himself. Its premise is both simple and devastating: for five decades, while…

This striking image by French photographer Guillaume Petermann just received Merit recognition in AAP Magazine #53: Travels. Captured on Lake Manchar in Sindh Province, Pakistan, the photograph documents one of the world’s most extraordinary and endangered fishing traditions. This rare tradition highlights a vanishing way of life between humans and nature, a bond that has endured for…

Karine Aigner’s photograph of an elusive jaguar in Ecuador saw her win the General – Color category in the fourteenth season of HIPA (the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award), themed ‘Power’. With a prize pot of US$1 million [£739,550/AU$1,490,000] HIPA is the world’s richest photography competition so its category winners are able…

When Nan Goldin shot the photographs that would be published in 1970s as The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, she didn’t really know what she was doing with light. As she told the Guardian years later, “That series is stark. It’s all flash-lit. I honestly didn’t know about natural light then and how it affected the color of the skin because I never went out in…