Andrew Chapman Photography
A true enthusiast, Andrew has always retained a love of photojournalism & documentary B&W photography.
Born 1954 in Melbourne, Australia, Andrew Chapman Studied photography at Prahran College of Advanced Education in the 1970's under the guidance of well known photographers John Cato and Athol Smith. Andrew graduated with Honours from Prahran CAE in 1980, where he also won the Agfa Award for Printing Excellence.
He worked as a newspaper photographer 1978-80, 1982-86, in suburban press and on freelance daily news assignments.
As a freelance photographer (1985-2006), Andrew has worked on numerous assignments for "Time", "Business Review Weekly", "The Bulletin" and "Who Weekly" magazines. With more than a dozen "Time" covers to his credit, he has covered subjects as diverse as Heroin Dealers, Bushfires, Prime Ministers, Presidents and Celebrities. Many prominent Australian and overseas corporations as well as government departments have commissioned Andrew to work on their Annual Reports and company magazines.
He was the instigator in 1998 and again in 1999 of the "Ararat" projects, which involved taking teams of approximately 40 photographers to the Victorian town of Ararat and its surrounds. Whilst there, they photographed the lifeblood of the district and created a unique visual record of a rural community in the late 20 century. To his knowledge this is the only time this has been attempted in Australia. Some of Australia's finest photographers donated the resulting prints to the Ararat community to hold as a visual record.
He has just completed 2 other group documentary projects, one on St Arnaud, Victoria and a second, at Hay NSW.
Since the late 1990's Andrew has been a regular exhibitor, with 2 major shows to his credit, "Click; Rural Photographs By Andrew Chapman", and currently "The Shearers", which is on a 10 Gallery tour of the Eastern States (due next at The National Wool Museum, Geelong, 1st Dec 2006 - 30th Jan 2007). This critically acclaimed exhibition has been the focus of a 20 minute feature on ABC TV's "Landline", as well as having major press/magazine coverage, both here, Europe and the UK. “The Shearers” has been published in November 2006 by Lothian Press as a 176 page hardback book.
"Click", has been fully acquired by the State Library of Victoria as part of their permanent collection.
In September 2003 Andrew exhibited "Journeys", at CP Galleries in East Sydney. A collection of landscapes, it is this exhibition's third showing, having been seen at Toorak-South Yarra Library in October 2001.
12 of Andrew's images were featured in a group show of Australian documentary work, "Australian Chronicles", at Montpellier, France in April 2006.
Aside from rural documentary work, Andrew is currently collating a series of his political images from election campaigns (1971-2004) for a show “Campaign” at Old Parliament House, Canberra in Feb 2007.
Andrew was a finalist in the Leica CCP Photojournalism awards being exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy from July 2005. His subject was Prime Minister John Howard and the 2004 Federal Election Campaign.
Andrew was an inaugural guest speaker at the Daylesford Foto Biennale in June, 2005, talking on the subject of Documentary Photography.
His work resides in collections at The National Library in Canberra, The State Library of Victoria, The Monash Gallery of Art, The City of Montpellier in France, The Horsham Regional Gallery, The City of Knox, as well as many private collections.
Andrew Chapman's personal black-and-white projects, one focussing on rural labour and another on workers in general.
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