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Olegas Truchanas was born on 22 September, 1923 in Šiauliai, Lithuania, is an Australian photographer. Discover Olegas Truchanas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 49 years old?

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Occupation Photographer
Age 49 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 22 September, 1923
Birthday 22 September
Birthplace Šiauliai, Lithuania
Date of death 1972
Died Place South West Tasmania, Australia
Nationality Lithuania

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1923

Olegas Truchanas (22 September 1923 – 6 January 1972) 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, helped raise public awareness of the importance of the south-west Tasmania.

Truchanas was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania.

1941

In 1941, he graduated from the Šiauliai Gymnasium.

1945

After the 1945 fall of Lithuania to the USSR, he fled to Munich, Germany.

1948

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.

Upon arriving in Tasmania, Truchanas worked for a zinc company in Hobart for two years, as was necessary under Australian migration law of the time.

At that time, he began to take an interest in the Tasmanian wilderness.

1958

In 1958, Truchanas became the first person in recorded history to kayak the length of the dangerous Serpentine and Gordon Splits.

1967

Most of Truchanas' early photographs were lost when his house was destroyed in the Hobart bushfire in 1967.

However, over the next five years, he substantially rebuilt his collection of photos of the Lake Pedder area.

Though, as a clerk temporarily employed by the Hydro Electricity Commission, Truchanas was forbidden to speak about the increasing controversy surrounding the impending damming, his photographs began to play an important role in publicity for the campaign.

He was once quoted as stating "This vanishing world is beautiful beyond our dreams and contains in itself rewards and gratifications never found in an artificial landscape or man-made objects."

After taking what are now among the only remaining records of the pre-dam Lake Pedder, Truchanas realised that the campaign was lost, and turned his attention to the Pieman, Gordon and Franklin Rivers.

1972

In 1972, Truchanas drowned in the Gordon River after slipping and falling into the current.

His body was found, trapped beneath a log, by Dombrovskis.

He had lived to see the failure of the Lake Pedder and Pieman River campaigns, although the actual damming did not occur until after his death.

However, the campaign to stop the Franklin Dam, and thus save the Gordon and Franklin rivers, was to be ultimately successful.

After his death, a book of his work was published, with an initial print run of 5,000 copies.

Eight further editions sold out.

2003

Truchanas' and Dombrovskis' stories were depicted in a 2003 documentary, Wildness.

In the same year, a tribute, The Forest of Stumps, by artist Geoff Parr, was exhibited at Hobart's Ten Days on the Island arts festival, including a number of Truchanas' photographs.

Some of his photographs have been turned into postage stamps by Australia Post, and a canoe used by Truchanas, and several other possessions, are part of the National Library of Australia's National Historical Collection.

Singer-songwriter Bruce Watson stated, in his song Olegas, "the Franklin runs today because of what [Truchanas] began."

2007

In 2007 IHOS Music Theatre and Opera staged excerpts from a major opera, Olegas, based on the life of Olegas Truchanas.

2013

His work appeared in the 2013 photographic exhibition 'Into the Wild: Wilderness Photography in Tasmania' at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania, and in the catalogue of this exhibition.

2014

His collection of colour slides, as well as an archival collection was donated to the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in 2014.

2020

His work also appeared in the 2020 QVMAG exhibition 'Natural Visions: the camera and conservation'.