Order my debut photobook,
A Lost Place
A Lost Place features a trifold design, constructed from two hand-bound sections that overlap and interweave.
The repetition of the images within the design echo the recurring environmental catastrophes taking place around the world, while the interlacing of the pages reflects the interconnectedness of Australia's colonial past, environmental destruction, and humanity’s uncertain future.
Text by Jack Ashby and Prof. Lynette Russell, A.M. Poetry by Kirli Saunders. Designed by Tomasz Laczny.
Reviews
“Some time ago, we introduced you to Aletheia Casey’s A Lost Place on the Fisheye website. The series, now brought together in a beautiful book, crystallises what the artist experienced during the fires that ravaged Australia in 2019 and 2020.
It is the result of several years of work that became a necessary form of meditation. This allowed her to give physical form to memories that still haunt her.
This experimental project combines two bodies of work: one consisting of photographs made in various zoological museums in the United Kingdom, where she now lives; the other comprising images of landscapes immortalised during a stay in her native country.
Without ever showing the flames, she immerses us in a singular atmosphere that questions the history of her country.”
— Fisheye Magazine
