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My Australia - your brief and video tutorial for the April Clique Challenge

Fairfax photographer Kate Geraghty joins us for our latest video tutorial with practical advice on making a strong daily life photograph for the April Challenge "My Australia".

Call for entries: "Weather" Clique photography exhibition at Head On Photo Festival

Enter your best weather photography for consideration in the Clique exhibition at Head On Photo Festival

How I shot that photo: the flaming football

Ella Rubeli Why did Jay Cronan decided to light a football on fire? For art's sake, of course.

For the love of Elvis

Ella Rubeli They are dressed in leather jackets, some with their hair greased back, most with large bunches of flowers, striking sultry poses in worship of their god: Elvis Presley.

Pictures tell a story of mental illness

Peter Barrett What does mental illness look like? Last year, national mental health charity SANE Australia decided to find out. It asked 5000 people (70 per cent of whom had a lived experience with mental illness) to scrutinise six depictions taken from Getty Images' iStock collection and answer an accompanying set of questions. The images included a landscape, a silhouette of a person looking down-and-out in an alleyway, a graphic illustration of a brain and a woman talking to a health professional.

Stella-Rae Zelnik celebrates motorbikes at M16

Sally Pryor Photographer brings out the joys of the community who travel on custom-made motorbikes.

In pictures: 1988 Queensland daily life

Ella Rubeli In 1988 a group of six photographers were sent to all corners of Queensland to capture scenes of daily life.

Lens on gay and lesbian communities

A collection of exhibitions celebrate and commemorate LGBTQI experience from early 1980s to today.

The absurd interior worlds of Roger Ballen

Ella Rubeli "The issue of insanity versus what society refers to as normality has been a debate in my own mind for decades."

Spectrum Now: How to photograph a celebrity in five minutes or less

Ella Rubeli From Taylor Swift to Barry Otto - an exhibition of portraits of the stars taken by Fairfax's very own photographers.

Two to tango: announcing the February Clique Challenge winner

Ella Rubeli A pair of tango dancers captured the eye of this month's Clique Challenge winner.

Vote in the Nikon People's Choice Award for the Clique February Challenge

Each month we ask Clique members to vote for their favourite image from a selection of entries from the Clique Challenge in the Nikon People's Choice Award. The winner will receive a $500 Nikon Store voucher.

How I shot that photo: black glass magic

Ella Rubeli Clique's new weekly series seeks to demystify how Fairfax Media photographers do what they do.

Performance & Stage - your brief and video tutorial for the March Clique Challenge

Fairfax photographer Dallas Kilponen joins us for our latest video tutorial with practical advice on making a strong "Performance & Stage" entry for the March Challenge.

In pictures: when Madonna was a life model

Ella Rubeli Before fame, Madonna was just another model in New York, paying her rent by posing for a nude photography class.

Australian wins World Press Photo award

A haunting image of migrants passing a baby under a razor-wire fence on the Serbian-Hungarian border has won the prestigious World Press Photo award.

Win a cruise along the Mekong: enter the Traveller Big Picture competition for travel photography

Here's how to enter Traveller's fifth Big Picture competition for travel photography.

World Press Photo award winners 2016

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The jury of the 59th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected an image by Australian photographer Warren Richardson as the World Press Photo of the Year 2016