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Damien Peter Parer (1 August 1912 – 17 September 1944) was an Australian war photographer. He became famous for his war photography of the Second World War, and was killed by Japanese machine-gun fire at Peleliu, Palau.
- Official War Correspondent
- Parer's Oscar Award
- Paramount Work in The Pacific
- Parer's Last Reel
In August 1940, Parer joined the Department of Information Film Unit as an official war correspondent and photographer. He was sent to the Middle East to film the Australians serving in the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF). While he was there, Parer filmed in the Western Desert in Libya and later in Greece during the ill-fated campaign in Apr...
Parer's newsreel footage of the fighting on the Kokoda Track was used to produce the award-winning film Kokoda Front Line!. The film was edited by Terry Banks and produced by Ken Hall, the head of Cinesound productions. In 1943, Kokoda Front Line! won one of four Hollywood Academy Awards presented for wartime documentaries.
Kokoda Front Line! brought Parer international fame. However, he was dissatisfied with the conditions and rules at the Department of Information. Parer resigned from the department in August 1943 and joined Paramount News to film American troops in the Pacific. Less than a year later, he was killed 'in action' while filming US Marines. His first as...
To capture images of the faces of men in battle, Parer believed he needed to be close to the front line. Sometimes even in front of it. He was doing this when he died. With his back to the enemy, Parer filmed the marines advancing and was killed by Japanese fire. Chester Wilmot, war correspondent and friend of Parer, wrote to his widow: On 7 May 19...
Even sixty years after his death Damien Parer remains one of Australia's most well-known combat cameramen. He was born on 1 August 1912 at Malvern in Melbourne but was educated largely in Bathurst, at Saint Stanislaus School.
Damien Parer is one of Australia’s most famous war photographers. He was the first official Australian photographer of the Second World War. Working for the Department of Information (DOI), Parer sailed to the Middle East with the first contingent of the Second AIF in January 1940.
It’s a memory that still seems as vivid to veteran film and television producer Damien Parer as if it had happened last week - a documentary he watched more than 65 years ago.
Australia’s ace cinematographer Damien Parer (1912-1944) took his cameras into the far corners of New Guinea for four months in 1942. Facing the personal dangers and privations of jungle warfare, he brought to the world the first vivid, starkly genuine glimpses of this new type of conflict through his amazing pictures and films.
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remain invisible and not to be spotted by the enemy. The challenge for Damien Parer, as a war cameraman with Middle Eastern experience, was to demonstrate visually to a domestic audience just how this new jungle warfare was being conducted. How then did Parer capture images of an enemy who tried at all times to remain invisible?
