June - August 2020

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The Only Constant Is Change
Early in 2020 a strange thing began to happen all over the world. Whether it was a boisterous pub on a Friday evening, the singing crowd at the football, a murmuring congregation packed in a tiny church or kids surging around a playground, everywhere
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Head On Photo Festival 2020
The Head On Photo Festival program was just starting to ramp up final preparations for their ambitious 2020 program of events across Sydney when the COVID-19 pandemic hit Australia. Like everyone else, festival director Moshe Rosenzveig and his team
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Born To Be Wild
Where have you gone on your family’s farm to get phone reception? I’m in the middle of a paddock. It’s stormy and I’ll go behind a tree if it gets too windy. It’s a 2000-hectare sheep farm on the Murrumbidgee River [near Cooma, in southern NSW]. It’
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Delving Deeper
An Olympus Visionary for the better part of half a decade, Michaela Skovranova has devoted herself to the art of documentary storytelling through her photographs and filmmaking. What began with a primary focus on underwater projects and personal work
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The Smallest Moments
When the coronavirus pandemic upended life as we knew it, the effect on documentary and news photographer Sean Davey’s personal work was not perhaps what one might imagine. For twenty years the Canberra native has made a name for himself working with
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Make The Most Of Available Light
How many times have you been in a city and seen snapshooters trying to photograph 'the sights' with their cameras on auto and flashes blinking repeatedly? Total futility; built-in flashes can’t cover much more than a metre or two from the camera. If
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Japan’s Art Islands
The ‘Art Islands’ are in Japan’s Inland Sea, which lies between the main islands of Honshu and Shikoku. The islands have become increasingly attractive to visitors since the first Setouchi International Art Festival (www.setouchi-artfest.jp/en) in 20
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Get The Lowdown On Camera Batteries
We’ve come a long way since the early days of digital cameras when AA batteries were the norm and you were lucky to get more than 50 shots from each new set. Today, rechargeable lithium ion batteries have replaced all the previous types because they
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Net Effect
} www.bit.ly/pr84ne1 The good folk at Climate Visuals are building an image library focused on climate change. They’re taking an evidence-driven approach based on European and American social research into the most effective ways to create and presen
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Testing Durability
Durability tests can help you find the best printing media. Two organisations routinely test printing media for various parameters, concentrating mainly on resistance to fading under prolonged light exposure in conditions that simulate normal home an
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The Quest For Good-looking, Long-lasting Prints
Our last readers' survey showed 94% of Photo Review's readers print their photographs, with 51% of them printing at home. Of these, 62% plan to produce large prints this year and most use specialised printing media. Of those who resort to outsourcing

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