Industry Insights Archives - 1854 Photography

Light, angles and symmetry: Max Colson on installation photography

Max Colson is obsessed with spaces and how we interact within them. Here the artist and lecturer discusses how this underpins his installation photography

15 November 2023

‘We are a support system and we respect the artistic project’: the French museum democratising photography

Based in a former mining area in northern France, Centre régional de la photographie is honouring the past to bring photography to the present. Director Audrey Hoareau reveals the innovative ways the centre is reaching out to the local community and beyond

2 November 2023

How Gareth Phillips has reimagined the photobook

Photography’s rules are made to be broken. Having become frustrated with the medium’s conventions, five artists discuss how sculpture, activism and X-rays keep photography alive in their work. Next up is Gareth Phillips

28 September 2023

The inside story of Sofia Karim’s activist curation

Photography’s rules are made to be broken. Having become frustrated with the medium’s conventions, five artists discuss how sculpture, 3-D maquettes, activism and X-rays keep photography alive in their work. Next up is Sofia Karim

14 September 2023

Letha Wilson on using concrete, metal and steel to expand photography beyond the frame

Photography’s rules are made to be broken. Having become frustrated with the medium’s conventions, five artists discuss how sculpture, activism and X-rays keep photography alive in their work. Next up: Letha Wilson

7 September 2023

Bodies of work: Alix Marie talks myth and muscle

Photography’s rules are made to be broken. Having become frustrated with the medium’s conventions, five artists discuss how sculpture, activism and X-rays keep photography alive in their work. Next up: Alix Marie

1 September 2023

How to build a career (part 2): Campbell Addy, Rhiannon Adam, Sinna Nasseri and Charlie Engman

In the second instalment of Gem Fletcher’s industry interviews, we hear from four more artists on navigating agencies, hours, and side hustles

26 August 2023

Maya Rochat on painting, perception, and ‘stretching photography’s motives’

Photography’s rules are made to be broken. Having become frustrated with the medium’s conventions, five artists discuss how sculpture, activism and X-rays keep photography alive in their work. First up is Maya Rochat

24 August 2023

A guide to Singapore’s photography scene

Famed for its skyscrapers, the densely packed city-state is also home to a burgeoning photo scene. Photographer and lifelong resident Calvin Chow guides us through the cultural highlights

11 August 2023

In the studio with Katrin Koenning

We visit the home studio of Katrin Koenning in the leafy Melbourne suburb of Prahran, where the artist connects with the local community to develop her many varied projects