Aletheia Casey is an Australian photographic artist currently living in London, England. She has been published in and worked with The Guardian, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine, BBC London and BBC World, Australian Associated Press and numerous other international publications.
Aletheia has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery (Australia), Museum Bélvédère (Heerenveen, Holland), Photofusion (London), The Perth Centre for Photography (Australia), The National Geographic Society (London), Foto8 (London), among other places, and currently has an exhibition at the Le Mois De La Photo in Grenoble, France until November 29th 2020.
She was named as one of '31 photographers to watch' by the British Journal of Photography and was shortlisted for the PHMuseum Woman Photographer's Grant in 2018. In the same year Aletheia won the Judge's Commendation for the Iris Award at the Perth Centre for Photography and was a finalist for the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Award. In 2015 she was named a winner of The Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Emerging Photographer Award for the UK, and has twice been a finalist for the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Aletheia is a founding member of Australian photographer’s collective Lumina. She completed her Masters of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography in 2016 through the London College of Communication and graduated with distinction. She is a photography lecturer on the Masters degrees at The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and London College of Communication.
On episode 140, Aletheia discusses, among other things:
- Her current show and the pleasures of collaborating with good curators.
- After the Apology and the ‘inherent emotional quality in the landscape’.
- No Blood Stained the Wattle and the use of colour palettes.
- Inflicting ‘violence’ onto her film.
- The Dark Forgetting.
- Her TedX talk about healing and the need for acknowledgement.
- Generational culpability and the question of having the right to tell certain stories.
- Discovering photography by chance.
- Why she loves teaching and mentoring.
- Which Way is North and the loss of self resulting from motherhood.
- Not caring about what other people think.
- Responding to the Australian bush fires and the Covid pandemic.
- Current ongoing projects, My Eyes are Blue and my Heart is Grey and Where Does the Sky End and Space Begin?*
*There is no definitive answer but some might say 100km.
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