“The digital collages of the Città fantasma series respond to the abandoned Gwalia town site, a predominantly Italian mining settlement set up by Herbert Hoover. The images reference the role of Italian labour in Western Australian history and Australia’s complex relationship with migration, but also construct an impression of disconnection and dislocation that relates to the inherited legacies of migration for subsequent generations. “
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Photographing Western Australia’s Gold Towns
Thea Costantino, 2016
Città Fantasma 3, Thea Costantino, 2016.