ANDREW D FLANAGAN

Documentary photographer, filmmaker, social entrepreneur and adventurer, Andrew’s work in preservation and conservation, documenting peoples, cultures, and country. It was returning to his home country Australia and the introduction to community in central New South Wales and far North Queensland in Cape York that led to his education in indigenous knowledge systems and ways of knowing, rediscovering what it means to be living in relation to country, embedded in the landscape, existing under the law of land, that has redefined his life and inspired every aspect of his work.
His work in the past included commerical clients that are some recognizable brands and tourism boards, travelling through 128 countries and 7 continents, experience in front of and behind the camera in film and television in Vancouver B.C. That changed on a trip to Uganda and his brush with skin cancers that changed the trajectory of his life to concentrate his work to the nonprofit sector. Today, whether it is with his nonprofit organisation Ngarra, his social enterprise production company Earth Legacy, and his other initiatives like DURA, the Vā network, and Stories of Song, everything is in alignment with the one mission and task asked of him – to help shift the trajectory of the future of this planet by placing the ways of complex indigenous knowledge systems from all over the globe at the forefront to solve the issues we face today. To share story, to share lore, to share bora, retrieve forward ancient wisdom and knowledge systems from all across the globe, sharing them to a modern audience through visual media, immersive experiences and breathtaking imagery with the goal of bringing people back under the law of the land, to retake our position as custodial species of the planet.