Destiny Deacon’s staged photographs are ambiguous, acerbic, ironic, naughty, touching and painterly. She uses friends and family, dolls, toys and other objects found around her house to confront and up-end stereotypes – and to comment, sometimes savagely, on contemporary Australian life.

The title of this portfolio quotes African-American poet Alice Walker: ‘I see our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, captured and forced into images, doing hard time for all of us.’ According to the artist, Protecting paradise refers to the protection of cultural identity, despite being forced to undertake demeaning occupations, while Trustee addresses the institutionalisation of Indigenous people, often from childhood.