The line outside Enmore Theatre snaked along the street, filling Enmore Road with Sydney's youth, ready for Alison Wonderland. As Manu Crooks took the stage to warm up the crowd, the venue was packed from wall-to-wall. Jumping around the stage with a crazy energy, Manu played a collection of hard hitting originals such as ‘Everyday’ and fan favourites like ‘Day Ones’.

Since the moment of meeting Grace Pitts, I always knew she would go on to do amazing things in music. In the past few years, under the moniker GRAACE, Grace has gone on to achieve milestone after milestone.

When attending a festival, or really any place where there is music and people are dancing, there’s a special emotion that comes to life. As festival morph into mega events with huge budgets, sometimes it pays to return to the simple ingredients that make it all sparkle.

Japan is a kaleidoscope of ancient traditions dancing with modernity. Returning to the images I shot while there, there is a fine balance between the long-lasting history and the rapid embrace of the new. Unfolding out of the landscape is a reminder of the practices of the past and now, becoming one with it, are the dense, urban city scapes which have become a world of their own. It is the interplay between the two which ultimately becomes so enrapturing.

The series documents my first journey to Yosemite National Park, a setting that I've become quite familiar with through the countless years that it has been the default Mac desktop picture, but I've never actually visited.

Walking into This That, it was hard not to notice the impressive squadron of food trucks and the entertainment quarter with its own barber stand which populated the expansive field often used as stomping grounds for various sports. From the word (GO)DLANDS, THIS THAT invited you to cheer loud and dance hard, not so different to a standard sports weekend.

The light, the grain, the texture. Captured through the lens of our cameras, This That festival appears rich with sweat, smoke and colour. Bringing the energy and heat were Nyxen and All Day with Amy Shark doing what she does best, igniting festival stages across Australia

“It seems like Japan is everywhere in recent times. Maybe it’s just me. But after finally pulling the trigger and going it’s safe to say that I get it now. The people are incredibly nice and clean, the food is amazing, and everything is out of this world batshit crazy.

Change, identity and hope. Summing up 2018 in three words are the categories for this year’s Nikon Photo Contest.

The feeling in The Jordaan is that of a town within a city, both familiar and overwhelming. Tucked just to the west of central Amsterdam, the quarter has the hubbub of a big city but the serenity of a village.

Sunstudios will this week announce the winner of its tenth annual Emerging Photographer award. With an aim to proper the best of Australia’s younger photographers, the award is a launching board for future photographic success.

While the memories might have faded, the image remains. To start off our roll of the Week series we take a look back on the weekend that Backyard Opera was transported to North Byron Parklands for the eighteenth instalment of Splendour in The Grass. 

You know that thing that happens when you rub your eyes too much? Bright colours and a sparkly sense of vision? Well, for me, that’s Flight Facilities, a band that plays the aural accompaniment to a kaleidoscopic animation – a harmony between vision and sound that is out of this world and indescribable.

My main draw to photography is the profound sense of gratification I get from capturing the perfect moment, the best angle, a beautiful stroke of light.

Born in Iran, I grew up interested in the fascinating world that surrounded me. The colours, the smells, the culture, the intensity. I was moved at a young age to capture what I saw through my lens.

People. People really inspired me to start shooting. I had a fascination with faces, expressions and different types of beauty. I started off with an old school camera, taking fun pictures at parties and social events.

Whatever the political view might be we bond over numerous different things. We all get a child-like optimistic view of the world once we focus on the general things we love. We all love our pets, we bond over food, we all need collaborations and support.

This selection of work by Japan-based photographer Hamish Campbell forms a part of his collection Aogashima - life among the twin calderas.

What can photography do? Of a myriad of questions that has surrounded the practice of photography, two exhibitions at this year’s Head On Photo Festival reveal the importance of asking this question once again.

Backyard Opera's photography director, Lenni Mattanja chats about her philosophy behind her images.

I would say my style of photography is clean and calm with Scandinavian influences. I love working through movements and capturing the moments in between.

If you weren’t already aware, The Beresford and Absolut have teamed up to capture the spirit of Mardi Gras, bottle it, and then serve it up for brunch every Sunday.

Captivating, and mysterious – Ariane is beautiful, and more. She has a warm, child-like way about her, that, when in front of the camera, transforms into one of a woman with a purpose.

We caught up with Peter Balmer to chat about his work, style and what inspires him.

Hiro, 19 // Tokyo, the youth of today, in the busiest city in the world.

Since the Enlightenment, the idea of the individual as the natural state of being has reigned supreme. In the super-charged capitalism of the late 20th century and the early 21st the individual was extolled as the ideal, the single man against the world.

We caught up with Lucy Deverall to chat about her work, style and exciting projects.

Basic instructions on how to simultaneously heat things up and cool them down this summer.

We caught up with Kane Grosvenor to chat about his work, style and Craig Anderson.