Servitude 2009

digital composite of photographs taken in Australia

"Convicts assigned to private land holders held different jobs from those in government service. Many convicts were sent to farms to help the landowner cultivate and build the value of his land. They worked as "agricultural laborers, they cleaved land, constructed bridges, made salt, produced bricks and mined coal".
Connah, Graham. The Archaelology of Australia's History. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988.p.51

composited digital file. variable size.