Olegas truchanas biography of christopher

Australian photographer

Olegas Truchanas (22 September 1923 – 6 January 1972)^[1] was a Lithuanian-Australian conservationist and nature photographer.

He was a key figure in the attempt to stop the damming of the ecologically sensitive Lake Pedder in South West Tasmania by the Hydro Electricity Commission. His photographs, along with those of his protégé, Peter Dombrovskis,^[2] helped raise public awareness of the importance of the south-west Tasmania.

Early life

Truchanas was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania.

Olegas truchanas biography of christopher

In 1941, he graduated from the Šiauliai Gymnasium. After the 1945 fall of Lithuania to the USSR, he fled to Munich, Germany. Though he enrolled in a law degree at UNRRA University, he was sent to a displaced persons camp and subsequently migrated to Tasmania in 1948.^[3]

Upon arriving in Tasmania, Truchanas worked for a zinc company in Hobart for two years, which was necessary ^{[clarification needed]} under Austral