Jacky Chapman’s central theme and strength revolves around portraiture of people within the context of their environments; it includes children and adults and ranges from simple personal profiles in modest home environments to formal receptions at Parliament.

She has both a BA (Hons) 1st Class and an MA in Graphic Design and Photography from De Montfort University in Leicester and Central St. Martin's, London UK.

Since 1987 she has worked of many clients including The Times Educational Supplement, Nursery World, University of Westminster and many private/state schools. Her images appear regularly in national newspapers and in recent years a large percentage of her work continues to come from numerous charitable organizations.

Over the past 22 years of freelancing her charity work has taken her to many places outside of the UK. In the early 90’s she photographed aids victims and orphans in Uganda, child poverty in St Petersburg for the Christian Children’s fund and in the mid-1990s, spent months in Borneo and Zimbabwe as staff photographer for Raleigh International. In the late 1990s Chapman was teaching documentary and reportage photography at Notre Dame University in Beirut, Lebanon.

In 2004, over a period of 24 hours non-stop, she was involved in a Photo Project entitled “LITHUANIA. 24 HOURS”. The idea of the project was to invite global media photographers who would record, according to the themes provided, moments of Lithuania 's becoming a member of the European Union during the entire day. The final result was an exhibition and book.

In recent years, she has concentrated on building up her own library of images which can be found at Photofusion and on Alamy (www.photofusionpictures.org and www.alamy.com).

In 2009 Chapman embarked upon a new project - documenting derelict relics of the 1950’s and 60’s -- a time of drive-in movies, US highway motels and Route 66: a small tribute to ‘Vanishing America’ and the American dream, where one was free to build a better, richer and happier life.
America is a place where new highways are built and old towns forgotten; where land is so cheap it is easier to walk away and build elsewhere than give any thought to what is left behind. Here millionaire ranchers bury 1950’s Cadillacs (Cadillac ranch) or commission a pair of disembodied legs . . . where John Motley buried his amputated arm in 1894 only to dig it up when it began to itch from ant bites; where an entire town continues to find its identity and make money from a farmer who found a bit of debris purported to be from a UFO that crashed on his ranch (Roswell); and a place where the native Indians still feel deprived of their native land.  A slide show of these photographs can be seen by selecting "view your images" /events on this web site.

Enjoy.