Bio
Aletheia is an Australian photographic artist based in London. Her work is concerned with environmental issues and post-colonial legacy, alongside personal themes around family and cultural identity.
She was the winner of the World Press Award for Southeast Asia and Oceania (Open Category) in 2024. In 2025 Aletheia was named a finalist of the Global Focus project in the UAE, and was also a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award (Australia) and the Head On Portrait Award. In 2022 and 2023 Aletheia won a category of the Australian Photography Awards, and in 2021 won the Head On Landscape Award. Aletheia has been nominated for the Prix Pictet award, was shortlisted for the PHMuseum Woman Photographer's Grant, and was named '31 photographers to watch' by the British Journal of Photography.
Aletheia’s debut photobook, A Lost Place, is published by Damiani in October 2026.
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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, and has twice been a finalist for the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
She has published with The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine, BBC, Australian Associated Press, and various other publications.
Aletheia has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Museum Bélvédère ( Holland), The Perth Centre for Photography (Australia), The Royal Shakespeare Company (London), The National Geographic Society (London), The Australian Centre for Photography and The Art Gallery of Ballarat (Australia), and Xposure Festival (UAE) among others.
She is a senior lecturer and the Course Leader on the Masters of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, UAL.
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2026 Royal Photographic Society 167 Award
2025 Global Focus project Award: Finalist
2025: Photovogue A love letter to Nature: Finalist
2025 Head On Portrait Prize: Finalist
2025 Olive Cotton Portrait Prize: Finalist
2024 World Press Award, Open Category, Southeast Asia and Oceania: Winner
2024 Sony World Photography Award, Environmental category: Shortlisted
2024 Dahinden Environmental Photo award, Photoclimat Festival galerie at l’Académie du Climat, Paris, France.
2024 Australian Photography Awards, Documentary category: Winner
2024 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize: Finalist
2024 Australian and New Zealand Photobook award: Shortlisted
2023 Australian Photography Awards, Experimental category: Finalist
2022 Australian Photography Awards, Environment category: Winner
2021 Head On landscape Award: Winner
2021 Australian Stories Award: Winner
2019 National Photographic Portrait Prize: Finalist
2019 Iris Award, Perth Centre for Photography: Finalist
2019 Moran Prize: Finalist
2018 Burn Emerging Photographer Fund: Shortlisted
2018 PHMuseum Women Photographer's Grant: Shortlisted
2018 Iris Award, Perth Centre for Photography: Judges Commendation
2018 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Award: Finalist
2017 Moran Contemporary Photographic Award: Semi-finalist
2015 Flash Forward Emerging Photographer Award: Winner UK
2014 Environmental Photographer of the Year Award: Finalist
2014 157th International Print Award, Royal Photographic Society UK: Finalist
2013- 2014 Magnum and Ideastap photographic Award 2013: Finalist
2013 Moran Photographic Prize: Finalist
2013 PX3 Nature/Environmental Category Awards: Silver Winner
2013 PX3 Documentary Category: Bronze Winner
2013 Pool Grant by The Pool Collective: Finalist
2013 Head On Portrait Prize: Finalist
2013 Lucie Emerging Scholarship Fund: Short Listed
2013 Environmental Photographer of the Year: Finalist
2012 International Photography Awards (IPA): Honourable Mention
2012 Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Emerging Photographer Award: Winner UK
2012 Head On Portrait Prize: Finalist
2011 National Portrait Prize: Finalist
2011 Lucie Foundation Scholarship: Finalist
2011 Il Mio Viaggio (My journey), National Geographic: Finalist
2010 Reportage Screenings: Finalist
2010 European Woman's Lobby Photography Competition and Exhibition: Finalist
2010 Spirit of Australia Youth Awards: Short Listed
2010 Moran Contemporary Photography Prize: Finalist
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2026 Royal Photographic Society 167 Award, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2026 Xposure Photo festival, UAE
2025 Head On Portrait Award, Sydney Australia
2025 Olive Cotton Portrait Award, Tweed Regional Gallery, Australia
2025 Photovogue festival; A Love Letter to Nature. Milan, Italy.
2024 World Press Award, Netherlands, UK, Spain, Ukraine, Sri Lanka, Australia and 22 other countries worldwide.
2024 Dahinden Environmental Photo award, Photoclimat Festival galerie at l’Académie du Climat, Paris, France.
2022 Echoes: Lumina Collective. Biennale di fotografia femminile, mantova, Italy.
2022 Auckland Photography festival: Featured artist. Auckland, New Zealand.
2021 Ballarat Photography festival: Featured artist. Ballarat, Australia.
2021 A Particular Being: Lumina Collective. Armidale Art Gallery, Australia.
2021 A Particular Being: Lumina Collective. Perth Centre for Photography, Australia.
2020 Mois de la Photo. Invited artist. Grenoble, France.
2019 Moran Prize Exhibition. Sydney (Australia)
2019 National Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery (Canberra, Australia)
2018-2019 Echoes: Lumina Collective, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, Australia
2018 Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, In Vivo, Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen, Holland
2018 Family of No Man; Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles, Arles Cosmos 2018 (Arles, France)
2018 Interventions & Interruptions, Photofusion, London UK
2018 Women by Women: Lumina Collective, Bendigo Regional Art Gallery (Bendigo, Australia)
2018 Women by Women: Lumina Collective, Queensland College of Art (Brisbane, Australia)
2018 Women by Women: Lumina Collective, SUN STUDIOS (Sydney, Australia)
2018 Women by Women: Lumina Collective, Melbourne Polytechnic (Melbourne, Australia)
2018 Women by Women: Lumina Collective, Launceston Aquatic Centre (Launceston, Australia)
2018 Women by Women: Lumina Collective, EY Centre 200 George Street by Mirvac (Sydney, Australia)
2017 Lumina Collective Launch, SUNStudios (Sydney, Australia)
2017 Lumina Collective Launch, Black Eye Gallery (Sydney, Australia)
2017 Who is He? Exhibition, curated by Paul McDonald, Contact Sheet (Sydney, Australia)
2016 The Secret, curated by Paul McDonald, Contact Sheet (Sydney, Australia)
2015 Summertime Exhibition, curated by Sandy Edwards, Black Eye Gallery (Sydney, Australia)
2014 After the Apology, Australian Centre for Photography (Sydney, Australia)
2014 157th International Print Award, Royal Photographic Society, (London UK)
2014 Environmental Photographer of the Year Award, (London UK)
2013 Magnum Photos & Ideastap Photographic award, Trueman Brewery, (London UK)
2013 Head On Portrait Prize Exhibition, State Library of NSW. (Sydney, Australia)
2013 Environmental Photographer of the Year Exhibition, National Geographic Society, (London UK)
2013 The European Women's Lobby street photography exhibition, (Brussels, Belgium)
2012 AMPS: Photofusion Salon, Photofusion (London UK)
2012 Royal Shakespeare Company, A World Elsewhere Exhibition, Stratford upon Avon, (UK)
2012 FOTO8 Summer Show, (London UK)
2012 National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, (Canberra Australia)
2012 Head On Portrait Prize, (Sydney, Australia)
2011 Ireland Photo Festival Belfast, (Northern Ireland)
2011 The European Women's Lobby Photographic Exhibition (Brussels, Belgium)
2010 Head On Festival exhibition (Sydney, Australia)
2010 Reportage Festival (Sydney, Australia)
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The New Yorker, USA
The Guardian, UK
Sunday Times, UK
The Guardian, Australia
Vogue Italia, Italy
BBC Stories, Worldwide
Fisheye Magazine, France
Polka Magazine, France
Internazionale, Italy
24 Il Magazine, 24 Ore, Italy
Australian Photographer, Australia
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Archivo platform, Photography and Visual Culture research platform
British Journal of Photography Online '31 Photographer's to Watch'
She Shoots Film, Print magazine: Worldwide
Featureshoot Magazine, Worldwide
Photojournalism Now, Worldwide
The Financial Times Weekend Magazine, UK
Channel Four, UK
National Geographic, Worldwide
Foto8, London UK
Sky News, UK
SBS Television, Australia
6Mois, France
Light Journeys, Worldwide
Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Emerging Photographer Book,
The European Women's Lobby Photographic Publication, BrusselsWitness Journal, Italy
Getty Images, Worldwide
PBS Television, USA
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TEDx Guest speaker, Geneva, Switzerland
The Royal College of Art, The Hague, Holland
London College of Communication, London, UK
Kings College, London, UK
ECOLINT - The International school of Geneva, Switzerland
Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Macleay College Sydney, Australia
CATC Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Contact Sheet, Sydney, Australia
Photofusion, London UK
As an artist born and practicing in Australia, I acknowledge the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.