Photographer Tace Stevens in conversation with World Monuments Fund
Heritage in Focus photographer Tace Stevens discusses her work capturing Australia’s Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home.
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World Monuments Fund (WMF) invites you to an evening talk at Ithaque gallery in Paris, France with Australian photographer and Heritage in Focus participant Tace Stevens, ahead of her exhibition and book release at Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2025.
Since 2022, Stevens has been documenting the legacy of the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home, a former detention center for Aboriginal children forcibly taken from their families under Australia’s assimilation policies. Her series, “We Were Just Little Boys,” gives voice to survivors of the “Stolen Generations” through a powerful blend of photography, testimony, and archival footage.
The Kinchela site was included on the 2022 World Monuments Watch and selected for Heritage in Focus, a joint initiative by WMF and Magnum Foundation. Stevens was one of 11 photographers awarded a grant for Heritage in Focus to explore the deep connection between heritage sites and the communities that sustain them.
Find out more about the work in this conversation between Stevens and Scott Goodwin, Program Manager at WMF. Their conversation will be moderated by Matt Dunne, Editor-in-Chief at Tall Poppy Press, which is publishing Stevens’ forthcoming book.
The talk will be in English and will feature an exposition of Stevens' photographs. Cocktails will follow.
Photographer Tace Stevens in conversation with World Monuments Fund
Heritage in Focus photographer Tace Stevens discusses her work capturing Australia’s Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home.
date & time
Location
World Monuments Fund (WMF) invites you to an evening talk at Ithaque gallery in Paris, France with Australian photographer and Heritage in Focus participant Tace Stevens, ahead of her exhibition and book release at Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2025.
Since 2022, Stevens has been documenting the legacy of the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home, a former detention center for Aboriginal children forcibly taken from their families under Australia’s assimilation policies. Her series, “We Were Just Little Boys,” gives voice to survivors of the “Stolen Generations” through a powerful blend of photography, testimony, and archival footage.
The Kinchela site was included on the 2022 World Monuments Watch and selected for Heritage in Focus, a joint initiative by WMF and Magnum Foundation. Stevens was one of 11 photographers awarded a grant for Heritage in Focus to explore the deep connection between heritage sites and the communities that sustain them.
Find out more about the work in this conversation between Stevens and Scott Goodwin, Program Manager at WMF. Their conversation will be moderated by Matt Dunne, Editor-in-Chief at Tall Poppy Press, which is publishing Stevens’ forthcoming book.
The talk will be in English and will feature an exposition of Stevens' photographs. Cocktails will follow.
About the Speakers
Tace Stevens
Tace Stevens is a Noongar and Spinifex visual storyteller based in Perth, Western Australia. She uses photography and film to explore this world and to better understand who she is, as an Aboriginal woman. Building strong relationships with those she photographs allows her work to have a sense of authenticity and truth. In 2023, Stevens received a grant from the Magnum Foundation and the World Monument Fund, to work with the Survivors of the Kinchela Boys Home, a state-run institution that forcibly removed hundreds of Indigenous boys from their families between 1924 and 1970. This body of work, We Were Just Little Boys, is currently exhibiting at the Centre of Contemporary Photography as part of PHOTO 2024.
Matt Dunne
Editor in Chief, Tall Poppy PressMatt Dunne runs Tall Poppy Press. Before that, he made his own books by hand and has been exploring bookbinding and bookmaking since 2016.
Scott Goodwin
Program Manager, WMFScott joined World Monuments Fund in 2020, where he oversees the World Monuments Watch program and manages preservation field projects. A preservation specialist with experience in cultural research, public history, and heritage management, he was previously WMF’s Bonnie Burnham Fellow and has served as Managing Editor of Future Anterior, journal of historic preservation history, theory, and criticism. Reflected in his work at WMF, Scott's dedication to grassroots community projects and participatory public programming also extends to his role as the co-founder of a freeform community radio station in New Mexico, USA. Scott received his MA from Columbia University GSAPP and BA from Oberlin College.