Last night, art history was made when an anonymous buyer paid a record-breaking $4.34 million for Andreas Gursky's photograph of the Rhine River, called Rhein II.

The snapshot, which sold at Christie's impressionist and modern art auction in New York, became the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction.

It beat out Cindy Sherman's Untitled #96, which sold for a whopping $3.89 million at a Christie's sale this May.

Gursky's print, made in 1999, was expected to sell for between $2.5 million and $3.5 million. It depicts a stunning panorama of Germany's most famous river. The sale price includes the buyer's premium

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David Brittain and Anna Bombardieri have recently returned from Sydney where they attended the AIPP National Photography Awards. For the third year in a row Anna was invited to judge the AIPP Canon Professional Photographer of The Year Award. This is an honour only given to the AIPP's most senior judges.

Also a big congratulations to David Brittain who received a gold award in the portrait category and silver awards in the landscape and illustrative categories.