Olegas Truchanas Wilderness Photographer PART 1

[Please make sure to watch PART 2 after this.]

Using images taken from This Vanishing World exhibition in Launceston at the QVMAG, and selected footage from the 1976 documentary on ABC's Big Country, we get to learn something about the life and work of Olegas Truchanas (1923-1972).

This documentary shows how a refugee from Lithuania after WW2, came to explore the remote southwest wilderness of Tasmania, becoming a dedicated environmentalist in the process. To serve his need to educate people about the glories of the wilderness, Olegas Truchanas took up photography. His legacy extended to mentoring another young immigrant to Tasmania from Latvia, Peter Dombrovskis (1945-1996). Dombrovskis went on to become Australia's premier wilderness photographer.

There is also a wonderful Film Australia documentary called Wildness (2003) which describes the relationship between these two men: Both were immigrants; both became committed to saving the wilderness from destruction; both used photography to speak for them; both men died in the wilderness while doing what they loved.
shop.nfsa.gov.au/wildness

www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/Whats-on/Museum-at-Inveresk/This-Van...

This short film was compiled by me using photographs and video shot with the Nikon D850 and edited on VideoPad Video Editor.

Taken on: December 8, 2024

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Olegas Truchanas Wilderness Photographer PART 1

Olegas Truchanas (1923-1972)

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