Posts published in “Opinion”

In 1937, Anne Fischer, a young Jewish refugee, fled Nazi persecution and travelled via Palestine, Italy, Greece and England to South Africa. There she established… Read more

While the internal report commissioned by Eastman Kodak Company, Regarding the events surrounding the US International Development Finance Corporation Letter of Interest, exonerates everyone involved, the company it describes is not one any responsible government would loan a billion dollars to. Read more

It comes as no secret that the ankle-tap that Covid-19 has had on the wedding industry is significant. In fact, it’s been huge. At the beginning of the pandemic, I watched on in horror as the company I founded, Album Registry, came to an overnight halt – literally. Read more

Drones have changed how we see the world. Even more profoundly, drones have transformed how we witness the world: how we decide the events that… Read more

Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, ruler of France from 1848 to 1870, was ‘the most enthusiastic supporter of photography in all of Europe’. He stocked his libraries with countless photographs of bridges, parks, army camps, railways, and palaces. These structures were his most important achievements and he commissioned a panoply of photographers to celebrate them. Read more

For many years I have been interested in what happens to photographers’ whole of life archives — only a fraction of which will be accepted for gift or purchase by large public collections. Read more

Canon’s EOS R5 revolutionary 8K video capabilities now appear half baked and crippled by overheating issues. But before we got here, the Canon marketing department’s… Read more

The sale of the Olympus camera division to Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) may result in removing the ‘Olympus’ label from camera and lens products and,… Read more

Up until recently, Australia’s enthusiast photo media was going broke slowly relying on advertising support from local photo equipment distributors and specialist retailers. Now there’s… Read more

Over the last few weeks, photographs in the news and on social media have documented our behaviour in response to COVID-19. Panic buying of pasta,… Read more