Thomas Brisbane

photographer Aletheia Casey's latest body of work, to Forget The Dark , explored the history of their homeland, Australia. Here she writes about the inspiration behind the images.

I'm Australian, British, and Irish descent. I know little about the history of My Family on My Mother 's side. For many Australians, this lack of knowledge about our ancestors, is typical.

We have tried many times to forget Our Own stories and those of the violent education in Our Country and build a new life, not to The Past .

I have lived a large part of my adult life away from Australia, but it is the only place I would consider ever home.

I constantly long for the Australian light, The Weather , the changes in a moment, the scorching sun and the bitter wind.

I miss The Wild Pacific Ocean and the vast wilderness of the landscape, the largely undeveloped.

Australia is the only place I feel I Belong .

The Land and the history it contains, which is embedded in my identity.

I grew up in a time when The Narrative of the Australian story tells of the size and bravery of the British explorers and the first settlers, who were seen, tamed The Wild , rugged landscape of Australia in a land of prosperity and opportunities.

This story helped the unity of the blended inhabitants, and create a unified nation of new settlers but was of fundamental importance in the removal and disqualifications at the end of the achievements of the aboriginal people.

The Anthropologist William Stanner wrote about a culture of "dis-remembering".

We had honored "The Great Australian Silence," he said, not only a silence, the to tell an alternative story, but also an appeasement of the locals voices.

This photographic work focuses on the little-known massacre sites in the interior of New South Wales .

The Bathurst war was fought after the British settlers, a way found through the incredibly rugged Blue Mountains to claim the fertile plains about. to protect

The indigenous Wiradjuri nation, their lands, and in 1824, Governor Thomas Brisbane , the war, tried to right.

The images, search, hidden atrocities by the distorted and manipulated landscapes.

The series, as Australia, the collective national identity was informed by a manipulated version of the story.

My Own manipulation and distortion of the images is a part of my personal attempt, the confrontation with the history of the country, and My Own , individual track in The Image and the reveal and reveal a more truthful version of the story.

By scratching, and physical Manipulation of the actual movies, the photos are a mirror of our distorted understanding of history.

Aletheia Casey talks about working on a Tedx event on the 12. October, in Geneva .

Source of news: bbc.com