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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.
Damien Parer and George Silk, photographers with the Department of Information at Tobruk Harbour, preparing to capture the next air raid. During the Greek (April) and Syrian (June-July) campaigns, as well as the Tobruk siege (April-December), Parer primarily took motion pictures with a few stills.
Damien Parer. Cinematographer: Assault on Salamaua. Damien Parer was a noted war cameraman during WWII. He filmed Australian soldiers in action in the Middle East and New Guinea, for the (then) Department of Information. He won an Academy Award for his coverage of the action on the Kokoda Trail.
- Damien Parer
- September 17, 1944
- August 1, 1912
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?
Damien Peter Parer (1912-1944), war photographer and cameraman, was born on 1 August 1912 at Malvern, Melbourne, youngest of eight children of John Arthur Parer, an hotelkeeper from Spain, and his Victorian-born wife Teresa, née Carolin.
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Damien Parer. 1912 - 1944 | VIC | Cameraman, photographer. Parer was one of Australia’s best-known combat cameramen. As official movie photographer for the AIF, he decided early to film from as close to the action as possible.
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Documentary made by celebrated war correspondent and cameraperson, Damien Peter Parer, and film-maker, Kenneth George Hall. It was filmed on location in New Guinea in 1942. In this footage, we see Australian troops along the Kokoda Track, the fighting conditions in the jungle, and the help of indigenous carriers to remove wounded soldiers from ...
