The Australian National Maritime Museum is marking NAIDOC week with an intimate new exhibition featuring photographic works by celebrated Aboriginal artist Michael Cook. Undiscovered - Photographic works by Michael Cook offers visitors a contemporary Indigenous perspective on European settlement in Australia.
The 10 striking large scale images shift roles and perspectives around the notion of European -discovery' of Australia, a land already inhabited by its original people, and reflect on our habitual ways of thinking and seeing our history.
The series questions who really discovered Australia while making reference to what was here, what has been introduced and the effect this had on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their country and culture.
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