Tim Page - Photographer. Balls The Size Of Mangos.

The Jerry Hyde Podcast

If you've ever read anything about the Vietnam War you'll have heard the name Tim Page.
A near mythical, larger than life figure, known not just for his extraordinary art but also for his equally extraordinary, death defying personality and spirit.
Having driven overland at the age of 17 to Southeast Asia, Page is the man upon whom Dennis Hopper based his character in Apocalypse Now; the man who lived, perhaps too closely, by Robert Capa's adage 'if your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough'; the man who lost many of his closest friends (most notably Errol Flynn's son Sean) and part of his own brain in that nightmarish conflict, of whom Michael Herr wrote in his seminal book Dispatches as being 'the most extravagant of the wigged-out crazies running around Vietnam.'
Wounded four times, declared dead on at least one occasion, Page lived on despite his significant injuries both psychological and physical to document the likes of Hunter S. Thompson and Jim Morrison, working for Rolling Stone magazine, writing numerous books and featuring in several documentaries.
I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to have Tim Page on this show - I urge you to forgive the Whatsapp sound quality as he talks with me from his home in Australia and take the time to soak up the wisdom, emotion and lifeforce of a true, living legend.

• Website - http://www.timpage.com.au/
• Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Page_(photographer)
• Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.co.uk/s00cnj/tim-page-photography/?autologin=true
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/timpagephoto/?hl=en
• Books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tim-Page/e/B000AP5PVO?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3&qid=1602537395&sr=1-3

Title track composed by Jerry Hyde and Nick Van Gelder, produced by Nick Van Gelder, keyboards by Kenny Dickenson, brass by Noel Langley, vocals by Sian O'Gorman.