Gallerie Charles Slattery, New York are very pleased to offer an inaugural exclusive curated retrospective of British photographer, Christopher Rimmer’s work from Southern Africa between 2010-2016 including work from all five of his U.S. exhibitions on the ETSY platform. A link to the exhibition: https://www.etsy.com/shop/GalleryCS?ref=seller-platform-mcnav Each of the thirty three photographs in the exhibition are available…
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The visual result of Christopher Rimmer’s African odyssey is a broad body of work entitled, ‘Spirits Speak’ which opened in Melbourne last year to critical acclaim and is being shown at Photo Menton in France later in 2013.…
Read morePhotographer Christopher Rimmer spent a year studying the strange habits of cattle on South Africa’s wild coast. His exhibition Amapondo opens in New York in April. The cattle in Pondoland on the east coast of South Africa are famous for their habit of visiting the beach. Reports from shipwrecked sailors stranded on the coast suggest…
Read moreOriginally published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 20 October, 2010. Written by: Christine Kellett. An Australian photographer whose pictures of breastfeeding women have been banned from Facebook says the social networking site is wrong to appoint itself arbiter of what constitutes art. Melbourne-based art dealer and photographer Christopher Rimmer travelled to Africa to shoot…
Read moreBritish Photographer, Christopher Rimmer spent two years documenting some of Africa’s last remaining tribes where age old traditions are still maintained despite the unrelenting advance of modernity. The Kunene River begins its journey from deep within the highlands of central Angola and meanders south for nearly one thousand kilometres, forming a natural border between the…
Read moreThis article was originally published in March 2015 edition of U.S. Outdoor Photographer Magazine and reproduced with kind permission. It was the end of the summer, and I was driving along the south coast of South Africa. The international success of my previous exhibition of photography, “Sign of Life,” had left me in the enviable…
Read moreAmapondo is the striking new series by acclaimed Melbourne-based, South African photographer, Christopher Rimmer. The series comprises twenty large-scale photographs featuring indigenous cattle set against the idyllic backdrop of Port St. Johns Beach on the eastern coastline of South Africa. Central to this series is its title. Amapondo means the people of the Mpondo…
Read moreWhat do you do when you have a three ton panic stricken elephant charging directly at you? Do you continue shooting or run for your life? I did both. The day began just like any other. Out of camp before dawn and settled into a natural hide near a waterhole with all our camera equipment, just as the first rays of sun began to…
Read moreA large plume of white dust in the distance announces their impending arrival at the waterhole and they slowly appear on the horizon like grey lumbering ghosts through a shimmering haze of heat. It’s baking hot and even in the shade, a steady stream of sweat drips down my face as I observe the herd’s…
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