Aletheia Casey
Aletheia is an Australian photographic artist. Her work is concerned with environmental issues and post-colonial legacy, alongside personal themes of family and cultural identity.
Aletheia was the winner of the World Press Award for Southeast Asia and Oceania (Open Category) in 2024. In the same year Aletheia won the Dehinden Environmental Photography award (France), and also won the Documentary category in the Australian Photography Awards. She was shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Award, and was a finalist in the Bowness Prize (Australia) and the Clip Award (Australia).
In 2022 Aletheia won the Environment category of the Australian Photography Awards, and in 2021 won the Head On Landscape Award. She was shortlisted for the PHMuseum Woman Photographer’s Grant and has twice been a finalist for the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Aletheia has published with The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine, BBC, and various other publications.
Aletheia has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Museum Bélvédère ( Holland), The Museum of Australian Photography, The Perth Centre for Photography (Australia), The National Geographic Society (London), The Australian Centre for Photography and the Museum of Australian Photography among others.
Aletheia is a senior lecturer and the Course Leader on the Masters of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, UAL.
Text relating to image two:
Several months before my mother died, she told me she was waiting for a bird. She said that she didn’t know what type of bird it was, but that she would know it when she saw it and that it would carry her safely away. I never found out whether the bird came for her but I like to imagine that it did, and that it cradled her soul just as gently as she cradled my son in this images.
Aletheia is currently engaged in producing her first book, A Lost Place. This book, from the body of work which won the Open Category of the World Press Award in 2024 (South east Asia and Oceania) has also been nominated for various other accolades, including the Australia and New Zealand Photobook award, Sony World Photography Award, The Head-on Landscape Award, and the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.
