Tim Page with a borrowed Nikon

Tim Page is one of the world’s best-known war photographers. Page became a war photographer almost by accident when, while traveling in south-east Asia, he witnessed civil war in Laos. Using a borrowed Nikon camera, Page photographed the coup d’état in Vientiane in January 1964 Page photographs were among the few taken of the coup. Later, Page was commissioned by United Press International to photograph the war in Vietnam, becoming one of the first to do so

In 1965, Page began taking photographs of border conflicts in Cambodia and Vietnam. Eventually, he became one of the more notorious combat photographers and renowned for the images he captured. In the movie epic Apocalypse Now, the dope-smoking, crazed photographer played by Dennis Hopper is reputedly based on Page