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Charles Page (born 1 September 1946 in Melbourne, Australia) is a Brisbane-based documentary photographer, and lecturer at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Melbournes Yarra River is a popular area for walking, jogging, cycling, rowing and for relaxing on the banks with a picnic Melbourne (pronounced ) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ... Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and is the third largest city in Australia, with a metropolitan population of 1. ... This is a list of notable photographers in the art, documentary and fashion traditions. ... Established in Brisbane in 1881, the Queensland College of Art is one of Australias longest-running art and design colleges. ... Griffith University is an Australian public university with five campuses in Queensland between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. ...

Biography

Page, described by Merle Hathaway, Director of the Horsham Regional Art Gallery, as "one of Australia’s best itinerant documentary photographers",[http://www.horsham.net.au/gallery/exhibiti.htm 1 began photographing in his early teens. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Photography) in 1981 from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. After working as a photographer in Melbourne for several years, he moved to Queensland to take up a lecturing position with the Queensland College of Art. In 2003 he was awarded a PhD (By Publication) by Griffith University for his photographic achievements. This article is about the year 1. ... The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (now officially known only as RMIT University), is a university in Melbourne, Australia. ...

Page's photography extends from documenting the mundane to the extremes of human life. Over an extensive career, Page has photographed in more than 70 countries, notably Chechnya, Somalia and Antarctica, covering themes as varied as war, nature, portraiture, and the nude.

Page's work has been exhibited in a number solo and group exhibitions, both in Australia and overseas. His work is in numerous public and private collections, including Australian Antarctic Division, Australian Parliament House, Australian War Memorial (Canberra), International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneva), the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG List of Artists), and the National Library of Australia. The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), of the Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage, manages Australias four Antarctic stations, as well as Heard Island, as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions. ... Parliament House Canberra: The main entrance and the flag Parliament House is the name given to two purpose-built buildings in Australia, where the Parliament of Australia has met since 1927. ... The eternal flame at the heart of the Memorial keeps the spirit of the fallen alive The Australian War Memorial The Australian War Memorial is Australias national memorial to the members of all its armed forces and supporting organizations who have died in the wars of the Commonwealth of... Canberra (pronounced [1]) is the capital city of Australia and with a population of just over 325,000, is Australias largest inland city. ... The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a private humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland. ... The Queensland Art Gallery is part of the Queensland Cultural Centre, and is located nearest to Brisbane River at South Bank. ...

Commissions

From 1984 to 1986 Page was one of 22 Australian photographers commissioned by the New Parliament House Construction Authority Art Acquisitions Committee to produce a folio of photographs based on the construction of the new Australian Parliament House, Canberra.

In 1988, he was one of six photographers commissioned by the Queensland Art Gallery and the Australian Bicentennial Authority to document Queensland community life. The project, which culminated in the exhibition Journey's North at the Queensland Art Gallery, aimed to encourage achievement and appreciation of contemporary art photography, as much as to celebrate and record the richness and diversity of community life in the late 1980s.

Projects

Page's national and international projects include:
1967-99 An extensive project to document the decline of steam locomotion in rail transportation. The project involved all Australian states;
1993 Photographed in the Antarctic under the auspices of ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) (Australian Arctic Arts Fellowship). The project addressed environmental issues, the removal of the last Australian Huskies and the Antarctic Landscape. Images from this project are displayed at Mawson Base, Antacrtica.;
1972-2002 An extensive project to document photographically the decline of steam locomotion. The project also addressed the sociological implications brought about by this evolution in technology. The project concentrated on the following countries: 1972 South Africa, Rhodesia, Swaziland, Europe; 1978 China, India, Malaysia; 1980 India, Pakistan; 1999 Western China, Inner Mongolia; 2001 the Forest railways of Manchuria, Northern China; 2002 Western China, Heavy Industrial sites and operational Steam Trains;
1992 Photographed in Pakistan and Afghanistan the operations of the International Committee of Red Cross. This project concentrated on I.C.R.C. activities concerned with the Afghanistan War;
1993 Photographed in Malawi, Mozambique and Somalia. A number of images from Somalia are included in the collection of the Australian War Memorial. Page was the only photographer to record the convoy from the port of Mogadishu to Baidoa by members of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) and a United States convoy of troops. (Australian War Memorial Collection) ;
1995 & 1996 Photographed in Chechnya (Russian Federation) under the auspices of the International Committee of Red Cross. This project concentrated on ICRC activities concerned with the Chechnyan conflict;
2000 & 2003 documented five Ipswich communities in the following geographical locations, Australia, U.S.A.[2], the U.K. and Jamaica;
2005 Documented the environmentally disastrous Saemangeum reclamation project in South Korea. Trains can travel at very high speed, are heavy, are unable to deviate from the track and require a great distance to stop. ... Greek ἀνταρκτικός, opposite the arctic) is a continent surrounding the Earths South Pole. ... Anthem: Rise O Voices of Rhodesia (from 1974) Capital Salisbury Language(s) English Government Republic PresidentÂ¹ - 1970-1975 Clifford Dupont - 1976-1978 John Wrathall Officer Administering the GovernmentÂ¹ - 1965-1970 Clifford Dupont Prime minister - 1965-1979 Ian Smith Historical era Cold War - Independence (UDI) November 11, 1965 - Republic declared March... World map showing the location of Europe. ... Manchuria (Manchu: Manju; Traditional Chinese: æ»¿æ´²; Simplified Chinese: æ»¡æ´²; pinyin: MÇŽnzhÅu, Russian: ) is a vast territorial region in northeast Asia. ... Capital Grozny Area - total - % water Ranked 78th - 15,300 kmÂ² - negligible Population - Total - Density Ranked 49th - est. ... Timber framed buildings in St Nicholas Street The Ancient House is decorated with a particularly fine example of pargeting Ipswich (pronounced Ip-Switch) is the county town of Suffolk and a non-metropolitan district in East Anglia, England on the estuary of the River Orwell. ... The Saemangeum was an estuarine tidal flat on the coast of the Yellow Sea in South Korea. ...

References

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