ASIO storms Damien Minton Gallery

Unearthed from secret archives, these photographs of ‘persons of interest’ question the aesthetics of surveillance.
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‘Forget 007 and think Commonwealth bureaucracy!’

These are the words of filmmaker Haydn Keenan and curator of the exhibition, Through the Looking Glass, which pulls together about thirty years of photographs created as records of surveillance by ASIO operatives.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina