David Dare Parker
Frontline Freelance Register
Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia
A Walkley Award winning photojournalist, David Dare Parker has photographed for many national and international magazines throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Australasia. Publications include LeMonde, Stern, L’Express, Focus, Australian Geographic, The Bulletin, The New York Times, Fortune and Time Australia. He is featured in the Australian War Memorial book ‘Contact’ – Australian War Photographers and WAR: Degree South.
Recent projects include coverage of Timor-Leste’s struggle to gain independence and Indonesia’s first steps towards democracy. In January 2002 he was asked to co-ordinate a safety awareness course for Afghan Journalists in Peshawar, Pakistan for the International Federation of Journalists. During April and May of 2003 he was the Official War Photographer for the Australian War Memorial during Operation Falconer in the Middle East, the first time an Official Photographer had been assigned by the AWM since the Korean War.
During 2004 he was appointed journalist in residence at Murdoch University. He has also worked extensively in film, television and the performing arts. As a film industry production stills photographer, recent credits include Cloudstreet, Underbelly Razor, Bikie Wars: Brothers In Arms, Underbelly Badness, Redfern Now, An Accidental Soldier, The Turning and Son of a Gun.
He is a co-founder of Australia’s Reportage Festival, was a Director of FotoFreo Photographic Festival, a Walkley Awards Advisory Board Member and an Ambassador for Nikon Australia. He is represented by °SOUTH and LightRocket.
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Interfet detain Pro-Jakarta Militia members.
David Dare Parker
Australian troops, members of Interfet, disarm and arrest members of the Aitarak Militia, Dili, East Timor, September 21, 1999.
Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
David Dare Parker
Jakarta's Istiqlal Mosque (Masjid Istiqlal) was built by Sukarno in the 1960's as a reminder of Indonesia's struggle for Independence (the word Istiqlal means Independence). Able to accommodate up to 75,000 worshippers, it is the largest Mosque in South-Eat Asia. 17 years of construction saw it finally inaugurated in 1978. Copyright: David Dare Parker.