Aboriginal Visual Histories
The Aboriginal Visual Histories: Photographing Indigenous Australians Project (AVH Project) is an Australian Research Council-funded Discovery Project. The AVH project commenced in 2008 with three primary objectives:
- review photographs of Aboriginal people in key collections around Australia and in Europe
- produce a systematic history of photographing Aboriginal people from the Australian inception of the medium in 1841 to the present day
- collaborate with descendants to incorporate Indigenous perspectives of photographs.
- About the Aboriginal Visual Histories project
- Background and approach
- Research methods: Uncovering photographic collections
- People and institutions
Ethical principles
The Aboriginal Visual Histories Project has a deep respect for Indigenous Cultural Heritage. To learn more about the ethical principles that guide our research, please view Aboriginal Visual Histories: Ethical Principles.
Contact us
If you have enquiries or comments, or wish to contribute photographs or information to the project, please send us an email.Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visitors to the website please note the site contains images of Indigenous people who are now deceased.