Garry Trinh | Artist

Since September 2001 Trinh has witnessed the suburb he grew up in
slowly change from friendly and welcoming to guarded and suspicious.
Trinh grew up in Western Sydney, home to a wonderful diverse
migrant community.

These photographs of fortified homes taken in Western Sydney show
how negative national and global events have effected this local
community. The Australian government's war on terror and the media's
perpetual negative attacks on migrant communities has added a new
level of fear and made residences suspicious and fearful of not only
government authorities but of each other. These houses are the result
of fear induced architecture.

Welcome Home | 2007