Tim Page at his home in Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia, shortly before his diagnosis with terminal cancer in May this year. Photo by Adam Oswell.
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand expresses its deepest condolences to the family and many former colleagues and friends of Tim Page. He died peacefully at home after a short bout with liver cancer. He was 78 and had survived an incredible life by any standard, first making his mark in the 1960s as a very young photographer in the evolving Vietnam War.
Page had a long relationship with the FCCT, particularly with Neil Davis, one of the most noted cameramen of the Indochina conflicts and a past club president. Davis was killed during a failed coup in Bangkok in September 1985.
Page was the founder of the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation in Thailand, which developed from a whip round in the clubhouse in 1991 after one of his many talks at the club. Although Page had little further involvement, IMMF-Thailand went on to provide ground-breaking training to over 900 journalists from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and to publish basic and advanced journalism training manuals in English and the main regional vernaculars.Page’s partner, Marianne Harris (Mau), has announced a wake with the coffin at 1:30pm on Saturday, 10 September, at their home off Sweedmans Lane, Fernmount near Bellingen. This will not be livestreamed, but there will be a showreel and photographs to share later.
All are welcome, but they are requested to let Mau know they plan to attend in advance for catering purposes. The gathering will be followed by the cremation. Later this year, 100 days after Page’s death on 24 August, there will be Buddhist rites, details of which will be posted well in advance.
Following the funeral in Australia on Saturday, the FCCT will be hosting a wake at 6:30pm on Monday, September 12, in the clubhouse.
All are welcome.
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