Behind the Lens of Australia’s Most Powerful End-of-Life Portraits with Julian Kingma

Behind the Lens of Australia’s Most Powerful End-of-Life Portraits with Julian Kingma

May 27, 2026 · 1h 17m · Season 3 · Episode 99

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Catherine Ashton interviews photographer Julian Kingma about his project documenting voluntary assisted dying through intimate portraits.

We'd love to hear from you. Send us a text :-) In this episode, I’m joined by photographer and visual storyteller Julian Kingma, whose work has captured some of Australia’s most intimate and human stories across decades of journalism, portraiture, publishing, and documentary photography. But it was his deeply personal project The Power of Choice that drew me to his work. Through portraits and conversations with people navigating voluntary assisted dying, Julian documented not just death, but ...

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