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Aletheia Casey

Profession
Course Leader, MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (part-time/online)
College
London College of Communication
Person Type
Staff
Aletheia  Casey

Biography

Aletheia is the Course Leader for MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (part-time/online) at London College of Communication. at London College of Communication. She is a photographic artist whose work addresses the trauma of post-colonial history, historical truth-telling, and issues relating to personal and national identity.

Altethia's work has been recognised in a number of publications including The Guardian, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine, BBC, Australian Associated Press, and SBS Television.

Aletheia has been lecturing for over 10 years in Australia, The Hague (at KABK) and London. For the past 20 years she has worked as a visual journalist at the BBC, SBS Television, and other broadcast media throughout the world. 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), The Australian Centre for Photography and The Art Gallery of Ballarat (Australia), among others.

In 2021, Aletheia was awarded both the Head-On Landscape Award, and the Stories Award by the Australian Photo Collective. She was named 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.

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