Silent Landscapes (2025-)
Silent Landscapes interrogates the unseen yet pervasive presence of Islamophobia in Australia by examining the everyday spaces where acts of discrimination, harassment, and violence have occurred. Using location data from the Islamophobia Register, I travel to sites across the country that have been marked by these encounters—ordinary streets, shopping centres, train stations, schools. These familiar public spaces, where people go about their daily lives, take on an unsettling weight when viewed through the lens of lived experience. What does it mean for a place to bear witness to harm, and how do these experiences shape the way people move through and occupy space?
Through the act of photographing these locations, I explore the tension between visibility and erasure. Islamophobia is often discussed in abstract terms—reduced to statistics, media narratives, or legal frameworks—yet its impact is deeply personal and profoundly spatial. It manifests not only in direct confrontations but in the atmosphere of a place, in its emotional and psychological residue. A shopping centre where a woman’s hijab was forcibly removed, a train station where a racial slur was shouted —these spaces remain unchanged in appearance, yet altered in meaning.
A mosque was burnt when a group of people threw a flame through the window. The window was broken and copies of the Qur'an burnt | Clive Steele Ave, Monash, ACT.
Victim (who had two children in the car) was verbally abused by truck driver at Petrol station who said to 'go blow yourself up in your own country'. An Anglo woman joined in the verbal abuse. Police and the truck company dismissed the incident I Bridges Road, Moorebank, NSW.
In a shopping center car park, a car pulled up beside the victim, and the driver struck her vehicle while opening his door. He then swore and mumbled at her before forcefully pushing her aside with his shoulder I Hume Highway, Bass Hill, NSW
A Muslim man was aggressively spat on in the street by a young white man on a skateboard I Tepper Park, Ashcroft, NSW.
A staff member wearing a hijab at a train station was verbally attacked, called a terrorist and told to go back to her own country | Redfern Station, Sydney, NSW.
A Muslim woman wearing a Hijab was at shopping centre with her elderly father; a white man passing by was agitated at seeing them and muttered hateful statements about Muslims and her veil as he walked walking past I Princes Highway, Batemans Bay, NSW.
A Islamic prayer room at a university was ransacked, and hate mail left on the premises | The University Of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW
A woman wearing a hijab was walking when a man began shouting at her about religion and followed her until she sought refuge in a shopping center I Dorcas St, South Melbourne, VIC.
Senator Pauline Hanson wears a Burqa during question time I Australian Parliament House, Capital Hill, ACT.