PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATTHEW SLEETH Edited by Helen Frajman home+away is a unique twin book set of photographs which are both light hearted and deeply serious. away is a series of images made when the photographer was out of Australia and suggests that mix of excitement and alienation which travel brings. The photographs in home were taken around Australia and are of a more familiar terrain, with the everyday rubbing up against the strange and the iconic to convey a highly individual take on home. Published by M.33, Melbourne 2002 2 volumes / 48 pages…. → More details
TOUR OF DUTY: WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS IN EAST TIMOR
MATTHEW SLEETH Matthew Sleeth’s book of photographs, Tour of Duty constitutes a significant and sustained visual investigation into the international presence in East Timor immediately following the Independence ballot.It must primarily be viewed in the context of the plethora of images which have been published and broadcast over the period of Australia’s participation and which indeed have contributed to our national understanding of this involvement. What we mostly saw in our press and on TV was either the genuinely abject plight of the East Timorese on the one hand and…. → More details