{"id":40918,"date":"2025-08-03T18:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40918\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:28:13","slug":"former-age-photographer-cathryn-tremain-dies-aged-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40918\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Age photographer Cathryn Tremain dies aged 66"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beck said he ended up working at The Age soon after and got to know Tremain well.<\/p>\n

He said Tremain rarely spoke about her artistic process and how she approached taking photographs, but just had an innate creativity that shone through in her work.<\/p>\n

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Aerospace engineer Bradley Macpherson in an image that was part of a series that was highly commended at the 1999 Walkley Awards.Credit: Cathryn Tremain<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was just instinctively artistic,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think she thought about how she was going to make something, she just knew instinctively how to take beautiful photographs.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe never really talked about it … She never really discussed how she did it, why she did it, how great she was. She just did it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photographer Cathryn Tremain at The Age in 2002.Credit: John French<\/p>\n

Tremain was an earthy, approachable yet tough character, whom he looked up to. \u201cI saw her as a bit of a photographic hero … She was someone who was instinctive and did such beautiful work,\u201d Beck said.<\/p>\n

Age senior writer Wendy Tuohy worked extensively with Tremain and fondly recalled her former colleague\u2019s talents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you scored her on your job you knew you were likely to get a free ride to the front end of the paper, care of her gifted perspective and intuitive talent for composition,\u201d Tuohy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe did have a seemingly \u2018tough\u2019 exterior, and didn\u2019t waste words, but her pictorial art revealed her to be finely tuned to the small things that connect us. She seemed impervious to sentiment, but her images were tender.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking at her pictures, you wondered how she\u2019d found these striking details in a scene where you may not have noticed anything out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe made nothing of her skill and creativity, and her subjects seemed to understand she met them at eye level. She captured magic we\u2019d otherwise have missed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser.Credit: Cathryn Tremain<\/p>\n

Jim Pavlidis, a long-time artist with The Age, said Tremain\u2019s seemingly tough exterior belied a very sensitive person who had a great eye for capturing fleeting moments.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe appeared tough to outsiders \u2013 no bullshit \u2013 but she was an incredibly sensitive person. She took really beautiful, considered pictures,\u201d Pavlidis said.<\/p>\n

\u201cCreatively she was incredible; she had a beautiful, really sensitive touch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fiona Lawrence, who also worked as an artist at The Age in the 1980s and \u201990s, said Tremain\u2019s photography was much admired by her colleagues.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I remember about Cathy the most is, just apart from her very genuine and outgoing personality, was that … everyone spoke about her work with such reverence,\u201d Lawrence said.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The water wall at Melbourne\u2019s National Gallery of Victoria.Credit: Cathryn Tremain<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople would just sit with the weekend papers, and it would always be unanimous that her work contained something special …<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had an ability to engage with everyone on a very personal level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tremain is survived by her mother Val, brothers Peter and Paul, and nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n

She was farewelled by family and friends on Thursday in a service at the Glenmorus Memorial Gardens Chapel near Albury.<\/p>\n

Paul Tremain addressed the crowd of about 70 people gathered for the service, The Border Mail reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cCathryn learned from an early age to be strong, resilient and fiercely independent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beck said he ended up working at The Age soon after and got to know Tremain well. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-40918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}