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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 was one of Australia's best-known war correspondents and camera operators. Parer had been brought up in a devoutly Catholic household and was expected to enter the priesthood. However, his plans changed after he was given a camera. Instead, he wanted to become a photographer or film-maker.
Damien Parer, by Max Dupain, 1940s. National Library of Australia, 11845931. 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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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 ...
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.
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. Parer joined the school's camera club and decided early on that he wanted to be a photographer.
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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.
