Capture

Capture is Australia's top selling professional photography magazine. The bi-monthly publication covers all facets of the professional photography industry, in particular equipment, marketing, training, pricing, finance and rights management. Capture's mission is to help professional photographers stay informed and up-to-date, to help them grow their business and develop their careers. Capture also showcases the latest photography and editing products, equipment and techniques from Australia’s best known companies and trend-setters. It reaches the whole photographic community, including editorial, advertising, wedding, photojournalism, events, fashion and portrait photographers, plus assistants and aspiring students

Iconic power

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Gregory Crewdson • If there were a single word to describe Gregory Crewdson’s images, it would be melancholic. Their inherent sadness is palpable and this is only augmented by the sense that they are moments frozen in time; another of the characteristics most often cited about his work. Candide McDonald reports.

Q&A The Pool Collective • The POOL Collective was founded by photographers Sean Izzard and Simon Harsent 12 years ago. Capture got the opportunity to find out what makes this collective such a success story for its members, both commercially and creatively.

Talent • Emerging photographers strut their stuff.

The power of the iconic • There has always been a mystery about the iconic image, about its power and its popularity. And now that mystery is deepened by layers of questions. One is that there are billions of images in the world. Has the iconic image lost its power by losing its rarity? Another is the idea that an iconic image has a job to do. Must it effect change? Candide McDonald examines all the questions. (Yes, there are more.)

Breaking into the art world • The Australian fine art photography landscape is littered with closed-down galleries, including the Australian Centre for Photography, Blender Gallery, Black Eye Gallery, Stills Gallery, and Edmund Pearce, to name a few. Have COVID-related restrictions reduced this landscape into a wasteland? Or, is what might at first appear like destruction simply be a way of the market reacting and adapting to the changes? Sophia Hawkes reports.

THE Mont AWARDS 2021

Throwing light on lighting • Not even the masters of lighting agree on where lighting sits in the hierarchy of elements that make a photograph great. They do, though, have definite ideas about how to use it, what to use to achieve it, and how to master it. Candide McDonald quizzed four masters of lighting for enlightenment on lighting skills.

On the walls • Stimulate your brain and excite the mind.