colonization
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7th INTERNATIONAL PHOTO-TRIENNIAL ESSLINGEN
LAND IN LAND (2004) [...] looks at racial relationships between aboriginals and non-aboriginals in Australia. Discrimination against the natives still persists, racial prejudice is still rife, and Australian law lays down different penalties for the same crimes for whites and aborigines. [...]
Balzar selects shots from his collection and puts them together to make a new whole. Although viewers discover that the works in the series are digital montages they are intuitively aware that despite all the construction they depict a social reality of which most people are unaware and that Australia largely distances itself from.
catalogue text
7th INTERNATIONAL PHOTO-TRIENNIAL ESSLINGEN
LAND IN LAND (2004) [...] looks at racial relationships between aboriginals and non-aboriginals in Australia. Discrimination against the natives still persists, racial prejudice is still rife, and Australian law lays down different penalties for the same crimes for whites and aborigines. [...]
Balzar selects shots from his collection and puts them together to make a new whole. Although viewers discover that the works in the series are digital montages they are intuitively aware that despite all the construction they depict a social reality of which most people are unaware and that Australia largely distances itself from.