Watch Melbourne transform over 55 years of Andrew Chapman’s photographs

Andrew Chapman’s remarkable work is celebrated in a beautiful career retrospective at City Gallery in Melbourne.
Andrew Chapman, A Ford Cortina on fire, South Melbourne, 1979. Gelatin silver print, City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection. Courtesy: Andrew Chapman Photography.

On the eve of The Green Bus, a sweeping retrospective of his astonishing career at Melbourne Town Hall’s City Gallery, gifted photographer Andrew Chapman recalls the book that started it all.

‘That great shot, where [he] reputedly pulled the cigar out of his mouth, and Churchill sneered at him,’ Chapman says. ‘That’s the first book that I really noticed, and I grew up on National Geographic too.’

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Stephen A Russell is a Melbourne-based arts writer. His writing regularly appears in Fairfax publications, SBS online, Flicks, Time Out, The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and Metro magazine. You can hear him on Joy FM.