The lighting of the sails of The Sydney Opera House will herald the opening of Vivid Sydney on Friday 25 May.

The biggest photo show in the Southern Hemisphere opens in Melbourne later this week.

Planning is underway for Photokina 2012, with organisers expecting 1,200 exhibitors from more than 40 countries.

Film might be dead but the world's most expensive camera is analogue. The world record for the most expensive camera was broken on Saturday when a prototype of the 1923 Leica O-series sold for 2.16 million EUR (around AUD$2.78 million) at auction.

Intended to be the most exhaustive one-day snapshot of humankind ever taken "A Day in the World" encourages photographers to record their experiences on 15 May.

The future of Australian photography looks brighter than ever with winners announced in the 2012 Australia's Top Emerging Photographers Awards.

Four photographers - Chris Budgeon, David Manley, Tracey Nearmy and Louise Whelan - share the accolades in Australia's top portrait photography prize.

The winner of the 'Decay' photo competition has been announced, along with 25 shortlisted photographs.

Iconic American photographer Joe McNally will tour Australia and New Zealand in May 2012, hosting photographic seminars and workshops in Sydney, the Gold Coast, Auckland and Melbourne.

The month-long Head On Photo Festival starts in Sydney on 4 May, 2012, with over 200 photographic events scheduled including exhibitions, artist talks, open studios, portfolio reviews, workshops and a two-day seminar.

Columbia University has announced the winners of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize with Massoud Hossani of Agence France-Presse and Craig F. Walker of the Denver Post winning the two major photography awards. <em>Warning: This story contains a graphic image that may cause distress to some viewers.</em>

Find out who won our biggest photo comp yet and who made the "highly commended" list.

Thanks to our new sponsor Canon, readers can now have an image critiqued by a professional photographer completely free of charge. Find out how you can have one of your images critiqued.

<i>Australian Photography</i> editor Robert Keeley will accompany a photography tour through China later this year.

Time is running out to enter Australia's best known portrait photography competition.

Cairns-based photographers Jürgen Freund and Stella Chiu-Freund, along with James Cook University, will host a week-long nature photography masterclass in Far North Queensland at the end of June.