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