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Damien Parer was an Australian war photographer and cinematographer who died in action in 1944. He filmed the battles of the Second World War in the Mediterranean, Syria, New Guinea and Palau, and won an Oscar for his documentary Kokoda Front Line!
Damien Parer was one of Australia's best-known war correspondents and camera operators. During World War II, Parer made the Oscar-winning documentary, Kokoda! Front Line.
Veteran film producer Damien Parer has written a memoir that reveals how he was affected by being the son of the celebrated World War II cameraman renowned for his images of wounded Diggers on the ...
Damien Parer is Australia's best known war cameraman... His film Kokoda Front Line won an Oscar in 1943. Parer was killed the following year while filming United States Marines in battle.
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.
Learn about Damien Parer, one of Australia's most famous war photographers and the first official photographer of the Second World War. See his images and films of the Middle East, New Guinea and the Pacific.
Damien Parer By DAVID PARER. When Damien Parer was born in 1912, his father ran the King Island Hotel and young Damien spent his early childhood playing in the windswept tussocks of the isolated Bass Strait island with his five older brothers and his sister.
