Veteran Australian photojournalist Andrew Chapman joins the show to share his extraordinary 55-year career, his battle with liver failure, and how surviving two transplants inspired him to document the transplant process from both sides of the operating room. This deeply personal and visually powerful episode dives into the ethics of medical photography, the making of his upcoming gallery exhibition, and the importance of organ donation — all through the lens of a photographer’s eye.
Watch these videos about Andrew's transplant work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tz1sQqxPYk
Yellow - A short film about Andrew's personal transplant journey:
https://player.vimeo.com/video/354590949
Andrew Chapman has photographed multiple transplant surgeries and has also had his own transplant experience. Since then, his images and exhibitions have inspired others to move ahead with transplant surgery in (often) a last effort to improve quality and duration of life.
He has a new exhibition opening soon at Magnet Gallery and it’s a story worth sharing and an amazing example of how photography inspired others to seek better health.
Andrew Chapman has photographed much of Australia’s social and political landscape over the last five and a half decades. Andrew’s subjects have ranged from Prime Ministers to heroin dealers, celebrities to sheep.
Andrew has a passion for rural life, ordinary folk as well as a love of the Australian bush. His work has been widely exhibited and he has published nine books. Andrew says he’s always wanted to do more than create pretty pictures. “I want to leave a visual record that people can rely on,” he says. "I don’t add things in before I photograph and I don’t take things out with Photoshop. To make a shot visually appealing, I just have to be sure to get it right in the first place”.
In his studies Chapman specialised in documentary, photojournalism & landscape photography. From 1978 he first worked for The Melbourne Times, then for Syme Community Newspapers and has since been a freelancer contributing to Time, on the cover of which his work featured more than a dozen times, BRW and The Bulletin, as well as Australian newspapers.
Rural Australia, its human and animal inhabitants, European and indigenous, the harshness and beauty of the Australian bush landscape, its vernacular architecture, and lively Australian Federal politics are Chapman's main photographic subjects.
Since 2006, Chapman has published nine books and has made photographic contributions to others’. He has exhibited in Australia, France and the USA.
In 2011 Chapman had a liver transplant, during which he was almost blinded due to a viral infection, prompting him to hold a 2012 exhibition - Nearly A Retrospective, a survey of four decades of his work. Chris Franklin recorded Andrew's recollection of events around the transplant and reflections on his lifelong calling in photography in Yellow which won the international Lift-Off Global Network Best Short Documentary in 2019.
Links:
https://www.andrewchapmanphotography.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Chapman_(photographer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tz1sQqxPYk
https://player.vimeo.com/video/354590949
https://www.donatelife.gov.au/
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