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Iranian photographer, Gohar Dashti was only eight years old when the First Persian Gulf War between Iraq and Iran ended in 1988. A new exhibition of her work at the Australian Centre for Photography shows the lasting influence of war, both on her photography and her earliest memories.

Competition is heating up in cloud storage with Amazon announcing an 'unlimited' photo storage plan for US$11.99 per year as part of its Cloud Drive service.

Check out some great new features in the latest issue of Australian Photography magazine.

An exhibition of black and white prints made in Japan by photographer Jane Brown will be shown at Stills Gallery in Sydney in April.

For our February 'Shadows and Silhouettes’ photo competition we enlisted the help of guest judge Todd McGaw and a new Facebook based 'people's choice' vote.

Sydney photographer Karl Grenet has won the Australian section of the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards with a photo of resting shopkeepers at Mirza Ghalib Municipal Market, Mumbai, India.

With over-manipulation of digital images a recent concern in photo competitions, veteran panoramic photographer Ken Duncan has launched a very different type of event.

The BBC and Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition will soon be on show at the Australian Museum.

After days of intense pressure, the World Press Photo has stripped Giovanni Troilo of first prize in the 'Contemporary Issues – Stories' category, after it was revealed he misrepresented the location of one of his photos.

The fourth annual Shot In The Heart of Melbourne street photography exhibition will run over the last two weeks of March.

When Apple unveiled a new homepage this week to showcase an international gallery of images shot with the iPhone 6, there was just was just one Australian name on the list of photo credits.

Following the revelation last month that 20 percent of images in the penultimate round of the World Press Photo Awards were disqualified on the grounds of excessive digital alteration, the World Press Photo and the National Press Photographers Association have announced plans for a symposium on ethics in photojournalism.

The new issue of <i>Australian Photography + digital</i> landed this week with some great stories on nature photography, travel portraits, Raw processing, full-frame DSLRs, audio-visual presentations and the challenges of shooting for a local newspaper.

Our January photo challenge "farm" drew more than 800 entries. We've announced the winner along with a selection of the best images.

Following on from the current Photobook festival now running in Melbourne, Stills Gallery in Sydney is holding its own event in March.

Brett Boardman's new exhibition and book <i>Mono no aware: The Poignancy of Things</i> juxtaposes photos from Japan's iconic Katsura Rikyu palace with a nearby homeless person's shelter.