Aletheia Casey

Aletheia Casey is an Australian photographic artist based in London. Her work is concerned with environmental issues and post-colonial legacy alongside personal themes around family and cultural identity.

Aletheia was the winner of the World Press Award for Southeast Asia and Oceania (Open Category) in 2024 and in 2025 was named a finalist of the Global Focus project in the UAE. She was also a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award (Australia) and the Head On Portrait Award. In 2022 and 2023 Aletheia won the Australian Photography Awards and in 2021 won the Head On Landscape Award. Aletheia has been nominated for the Prix Pictet award, was shortlisted for the PHMuseum Woman Photographer's Grant, and was named '31 photographers to watch' by the British Journal of Photography.

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, and has twice been a finalist for the National Photographic Portrait Prize. She has published with ‘The New Yorker’, ‘The Guardian’, ‘The Sunday Times Magazine’, ‘The Financial Times Magazine’, ‘BBC’, ‘Australian Associated Press’, and various other publications.

Aletheia has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Museum Bélvédère (Holland), The Perth Centre for Photography (Australia), The Royal Shakespeare Company (London), The National Geographic Society (London), The Australian Centre for Photography and The Art Gallery of Ballarat (Australia), and Xposure Festival (UAE) among others. She is a senior lecturer and the Course Leader on the Masters of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, UAL.