Jun 17, 2026 · 29 min · 10 segments
In the final episode of Series 2, Connie Mason speaks with award winning photojournalist Julian Kingma regarding his remarkable book, The Power of Choice. They discuss Julian's deeply personal project…
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Julian KingmaGuest
Connie Mason
Rob KaldorHost
I'm with Julian Kingma, and on the desk in front of us is his book, The Power of Choice.
It's a photographic record and the story of people in the last few days of their life, sometimes the last hours.
These are men and women who made a very deliberate choice about how and when they will die using voluntary assisted dying.
After 18 months, Julian was granted extraordinary access to record the journey of these patients, their families, the medical staff and the carers who walked alongside them.
You, I believe, have a fascination with death or have always had a fascination with death.
And that mortal fear was instilled by my mum, who was an incredible hypochondriac.
Okay, so given that state of mind, I'm curious, what was it made you think, I need to record the experience of these people?
So even before this book sort of existed and it popped into my head, I'd always covered end-of-life stories for newspapers because I worked on The Sunday Age and The Herald for a good part of 20 years of my career.
And I would always, because Jules was the empath of the photographic world apparently...
And also because of my Dutch heritage, it's been legal over in the Netherlands for as long as I
I was photographing for the Australian weekend magazine, Melbourne's first guy that was legally granted VAD.
I'm with Julian Kingma, and on the desk in front of us is his book, The Power of Choice.
It's a photographic record and the story of people in the last few days of their life, sometimes the last hours.
These are men and women who made a very deliberate choice about how and when they will die using voluntary assisted dying.
After 18 months, Julian was granted extraordinary access to record the journey of these patients, their families, the medical staff and the carers who walked alongside them.
You, I believe, have a fascination with death or have always had a fascination with death.
And that mortal fear was instilled by my mum, who was an incredible hypochondriac.
Okay, so given that state of mind, I'm curious, what was it made you think, I need to record the experience of these people?
So even before this book sort of existed and it popped into my head, I'd always covered end-of-life stories for newspapers because I worked on The Sunday Age and The Herald for a good part of 20 years of my career.
And I would always, because Jules was the empath of the photographic world apparently...
And also because of my Dutch heritage, it's been legal over in the Netherlands for as long as I
I was photographing for the Australian weekend magazine, Melbourne's first guy that was legally granted VAD.
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