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Picturing the Event Horizon

In 2019, astronomers captured the first ever image of a black hole. Around it is the Event Horizon, where space and time bend. It’s an amazing picture, but is it art?

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To bear witness in dangerous times

Manus Island refugee processing may be coming to an end, but new portraits by a University of Melbourne expert shine a light on the lives left in limbo.

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Birth of the holiday road trip

Holidays often mean an exodus across Australia, and it reminds us of a time when the open road was king

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The VCA in photos: 1978 – 1986

In 1978, when Janine Burke began her Master of Arts on artist Joy Hester, she bought a second-hand Pentax to document her work. The previous year, she had been appointed Foundation Lecturer in Art History at the Victorian College of the Arts,

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Aboriginal voices in the afterlife of photographs

Connecting faces in 19th Century photographs to their contemporary Aboriginal descendants can tell a new history

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The story behind every picture

A new book on the history of Australian press photography shows the value of knowing why and how a photograph was taken in the first place

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Life of the party

Germaine Greer made a splash when a magazine ran a series of stunning pictures of her - now some of them are being exhibited