photography Archives

Gallery: Changing landscapes of climate change

Australian photographer Michael Hall became interested in photographing the effects of climate change seven years ago. Two years ago he was awarded a Creative Fellowship with The Climate Institute in Sydney. His work follows moments and places that reflect the compounding impacts of climate change at home and abroad. Here he covers the 2009 bushfires in Victoria; the effects of the Millennium Drought on Lake Hume the NSW and Vic. border; and, the impact of changing temperatures on Iceland’s snowy landscapes.

Photography

New butterfly on the block

The tawny coster was known about in South East Asia, but its bright form was only recently spotted in northern Australia.

Photography

Orb-weaving spider down in the garden

Orb weaving spiders take over a garden in Dural, NSW, spinning intricate webs of silk into delicate wheel-shaped artworks

History & Culture

Gallery: Australia in the sixties

Aussies mixed protests with mini-skirts during this swirling melting-pot of an era. Whether you remember it or not most people declare that the sixties began in the US and Britain in 1963 and died in 1974. It was an era characterised by huge changes to daily life as technology penetrated homes and our the social fabric was torn apart and sewn back together as a mini-skirt. Ron and Elizabeth Morrison where some of the first ’60s freelance news photographers in Australia, and here are some images from their book Those Were the Days: Australia in the sixties.