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Don't miss your chance to visit the International Photography Exhibition 167, the longest running contemporary photograp...
05/09/2026

Don't miss your chance to visit the International Photography Exhibition 167, the longest running contemporary photography exhibition in the world, on display at ⁠🌟⏰
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The exhibition showcases 48 photographers from around the world exploring themes that include environmental issues, identity, conflict, memory, community, family, and culture, as well as using alternative processes to create the work ✨⁠
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📅 Closing this Friday 11 September
🎟 Free entry⁠
📍 Galleries 1 & 2, Saatchi Gallery⁠
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Images:
1. Piñata by Julia Lê ()
2. Jane by Abbey Hepner ()
3. Tom Inflation by Robert Coxwell ()
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Discover 10 standout photojournalism and documentary images from the annual international contest, World Press Photo of ...
04/09/2026

Discover 10 standout photojournalism and documentary images from the annual international contest, World Press Photo of the Year 2026 📸

The competition attracted 57,376 photographs submitted by 3,747 photographers from 141 countries, from a family torn apart in a US courthouse to famine in Gaza, Gen Z protests in Madagascar, wild pandas in China and the human impact of drone warfare in Ukraine.

The image above by Elise Blanchard, titled “I’m afraid”: Afghan women face US aid cuts’

"provides a timely and impactful look at the consequences of US aid cuts and Taliban rule on maternal health and child morbidity in Afghanistan, highlighting the human cost of the withdrawal of aid from the healthcare sector in a collapsing economy"

Read more about the stories behind the images, at: https://rps.org/news/journal/2026/august/10-top-world-press-photo-2026-images/

Image: “I’m afraid”: Afghan women face US aid cuts’ by Elise Blanchard

Interested in car photography and want to learn how to capture powerful, story-driven images that truly stand out 🚗Join ...
04/09/2026

Interested in car photography and want to learn how to capture powerful, story-driven images that truly stand out 🚗

Join renowned automotive photographer Amy Shore for our workshop that will guide you through the essentials, including:

🚙 How to capture storytelling images of cars
🚙 Getting your foot in the door with clients
🚙 Difference between panning and tracking shots and the technical skills to achieve them
🚙 Practical tips to elevate your photography style
🚙How to access accreditation to get into the events

🗓 Thursday 8 October 2026
⏰ 19:30pm until 21:30
💻 Online

Whether you're shooting your first car meet or planning a creative road trip, this session will give you the tools and confidence to improve your work.

🎟 Spaces are limited—book now: https://events.rps.org/en/rps-introduction-to-automotive-photography-with-amy-shore-oct-2026-5a2NN2B1poX/overview

You still have time to see our exhibition at the ⁠ London, on display until 30 September 2026 🌟⁠📣⁠The exhibition selecte...
03/09/2026

You still have time to see our exhibition at the ⁠ London, on display until 30 September 2026 🌟⁠📣
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The exhibition selected and curated by the Royal Albert Hall presents work from the RPS new collection alongside International Photography Exhibition artists 📸⁠
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Featuring work from 27 international artists including , , , and ✨⁠
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Find out more at 👉 https://rps.org/exhibitions

Image: ⁠
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Hello, I’m , an artist and photographer based in Brisbane, Australia. I’m taking over this weekend to share Afterimages...
30/08/2026

Hello, I’m , an artist and photographer based in Brisbane, Australia. I’m taking over this weekend to share Afterimages. This is my final post of the takeover. Thank you and thank you for spending the weekend with me.

Making Afterimages taught me to slow down and listen more closely to the environments around me. Working in darkness requires patience: waiting for my eyes to adjust, returning to the same places, and accepting that the landscape does not reveal itself on demand.

The project also revealed the scale of deforestation, wildfire and habitat loss. Informed by Kinji Imanishi’s interconnected vision of life, I came to think of the forest not as scenery, but as a living community. A tree, bird or animal is not an isolated object; each exists through relationships with countless other lives.

The Wild Almond became especially personal. I photographed the tree at night in a special place for me, near my childhood home. It is now gone after bushfire, and the photograph has come to feel like a last portrait. In the negative, the tree hovers between appearance and disappearance.
The title Afterimages refers to the visual impression that lingers after light fades. For me, it has become a metaphor for memory: a way of holding onto beings and places slipping from this world.

1. The Wild Almond (Shkedia) by Itamar Freed
2. Stars and Smoke by Itamar Freed

Hello, I’m , an artist and photographer based in Brisbane, Australia. I’m taking over this weekend to share Afterimages...
30/08/2026

Hello, I’m , an artist and photographer based in Brisbane, Australia. I’m taking over this weekend to share Afterimages.

Frogmouth, the work selected for IPE 167, was made in the Cooloola Recreation Area in 2025, when I lived on the Sunshine Coast.
I used to walk through the reserve regularly at night. My first encounter with this animal was not visual - I heard its distinctive call in the darkness. After researching it and speaking with family and friends, I discovered that the sound belonged to a tawny frogmouth.

In conversations with Kabi Kabi people, the Traditional Custodians of this region, I learned that tawny frogmouths are revered for connecting the land to the sky.

When I returned to photograph this particular bird, it looked directly at me. It was one of those rare moments when everything seemed to fall into place.

In the negative image, the surrounding darkness becomes luminous, while the bird remains a dense presence within the forest - both camouflaged and revealed.

I’m deeply honoured that Frogmouth is now part of IPE 167 at , London, on view until 11 September.

1. Frogmouth by Itamar Freed
2. The Burn by Itamar Freed
3. The Road by Itamar Freed

Hello, I’m , an artist and photographer based in Brisbane, Australia. I’m taking over this weekend to share Afterimages...
30/08/2026

Hello, I’m , an artist and photographer based in Brisbane, Australia. I’m taking over this weekend to share Afterimages.

Afterimages presents a nocturne in negative: solitary trees, birds and forest fragments photographed in fire-scarred and threatened landscapes.
These places are not scenery to me. They are disappearing terrains, shaped by memory, human pressure and fire.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 10.9 million hectares were deforested each year during 2015–2025. In 2019 alone, about 123 million hectares of forest were affected by fire. A global analysis also found that 70% of remaining forest lies within one kilometre of an edge.

Such loss ripples outward as biodiversity collapse: the fall of a single tree can mean the loss of countless dependent lives. These figures can feel abstract; I want the work to bring us back to singular beings.

What disappears when a forest becomes only a statistic?

1. Strong Winds by Itamar Freed
2. Two Tree by Itamar Freed
3. The Old Tree by Itamar Freed

Hello, I’m , an artist and photographer based in Brisbane, Australia. I’m taking over this weekend to share Afterimages...
29/08/2026

Hello, I’m , an artist and photographer based in Brisbane, Australia. I’m taking over this weekend to share Afterimages.

Most photographs in Afterimages begin in near-darkness. I use long exposures to record what the eye cannot hold all at once, then transform the final images into negatives.

The pale spaces are not daylight - they are darkness inverted. Shadows become luminous, and trunks, feathers and leaves emerge from the negative ground and space. Inversion is not simply a visual effect; it allows darkness to act as a revealing force rather than an absence or void.
The process also changes the photograph’s material language. A dense landscape can begin to resemble graphite, charcoal or Japanese printmaking; a real place becomes strangely unfamiliar. This is the point where the photograph moves away from description and towards memory.

An afterimage is the visual impression that continues after the original stimulus has gone. I think of these works in the same way: traces that linger, shift and slowly change the longer we look.

1. Shooting Star by Itamar Freed
2. Deers by Itamar Freed
3. The K'gari Dolphin Skeleton by Itamar Freed
4. Tiger by Itamar Freed
5. The Ferns by Itamar Freed
6. White Cockatoo No. 2 by Itamar Freed

Hello, I’m , an artist and photographer based in Brisbane, Australia. I’m taking over this weekend to share Afterimages...
29/08/2026

Hello, I’m , an artist and photographer based in Brisbane, Australia. I’m taking over this weekend to share Afterimages.

Afterimages has developed over seven years, across places I have lived in and travelled through, from New York to the Australian bush and everywhere in between.

Moving between these locations made me increasingly aware of how landscape is carried through memory: how one place can remain present while we are standing in another. The series moves between wild habitats and cultural landscapes. Each setting is real, but never neutral; it has already been shaped by history, expectation and the images we have encountered before. A single image can disrupt or reshape how we remember a place - even one we have never visited.

I often work at night, when familiar places become less certain. Darkness slows down the act of looking and makes me conscious of what I cannot fully see. Across the series, the landscapes and subjects feel both specific and displaced - part encounter, part recollection and part imagined terrain.
For me, this in-between state is central to the work: the photograph as a place where distance, memory and reality overlap.

1. Ferns and Butterflies by Itamar Freed
2. Black Moon by Itamar Freed
3. Before The Sun by Itamar Freed
4. Night Palms by Itamar Freed
5. The Eshel Tree by Itamar Freed

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