Tace Stevens (b. 1992, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia) is a Noongar and Spinifex visual storyteller based in Perth, Western Australia. She is a self-taught documentary photographer with a film degree from the Australian Film and Television Radio School. With a background in community development and education, story sovereignty and autonomy are central to her process.
In 2023, Stevens’ received a grant from Magnum Foundation and the World Monument Fund, to work with the Survivors of the Kinchela Boys Home, a state-run institution that forcibly removed hundreds of Indigenous boys from their families between 1924 and 1970. This body of work, We Were Just Little Boys, was featured in group exhibition, “On Country: Photography from Australia”, in 2025, co-produced by PHOTO Australia and Rencontres d’Arles. Stevens’ was recently awarded the 2025 Olive Cotton Award, a prestigious, biennial Australian award for excellence in photographic portraiture, with her portrait of Uncle Bill, 2023.
In 2022, Steven’s wrote and directed her grad film, To Be Silent, a short, hybrid documentary, that weaved 2D animation and poetic reenactments, exploring how her experience of code-switching had an impact on her identity. This film had a successful film festival run, premiering in 2023 at Sydney Film Festival, and screening internationally at imagineNATIVE, Maoriland Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival.
In 2024, Stevens wrote and directed a short observational documentary, Anangu Way, that followed her older brother, as he travelled 10 hours from Perth to Cundeelee, to sit down with their father, to learn how to make a miru (also known as woomera, a traditional spear thrower). This film premiered in 2025 at Flickerfest, winning Best Indigenous Short Film at CinefestOZ Film Festival, and Best Short Documentary at Fraser Shorts Film Festival.
