For twenty years, photographer and conservationist Olegas Truchanas (1923–1972) explored Tasmania’s wild places, pushing his body and practice to the limit. Motivated by a love of nature and natural beauty, his legacy is a story told through the lens of his camera.
This Vanishing World shares Truchanas’ journey and campaign in the 1970s for Tasmanians to have greater awareness of their state’s unique and endangered south-west – which helped inspire an ongoing environment protection movement – alongside the major influence he left on the wilderness photographers who followed him.

Olegas Truchanas, Showers, Frankland Range, Lake Pedder, 1968, Cibachrome print. Courtesy Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Tasmania
Queen Victoria Museum at Inveresk
13 July 2024 to 20 July 2025
Tasmania