The stark glory and brutal reality of Australia’s vast Outback is brought into sharp focus in British photographer, Christopher Rimmer’s latest body of work entitled Remnant – The Tragedy of Lost Significance. Review by Rachel Gillies So many Brits, Martin Parr among them have often missed the mark when attempting to make visual sense of…
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Christopher Rimmer’s latest exhibition, “Remnant, The Tragedy of Lost Significance,” emerges as a poignant reflection of his three-year exploration into the heart of the vast Australian Outback. Undertaken amidst a world grappling with the challenges of a pandemic and of subsequent lockdowns, Rimmer’s artistic quest attempts to uncover meaning in the remains of failed human endeavour,…
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British photographer, Christopher Rimmer explores the fragility of human ambition in the unforgiving harshness of the Australian Outback, inviting his viewers to ponder fundamental questions about the human condition and its impact on the environment. Christopher Rimmer’s latest body of work, Remnant, the Tragedy of Lost Significance, represents a notable departure from the artist’s…
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Christopher Rimmer’s much anticipated new body of work entitled, Remnant – the Tragedy of Lost Significance, will be exhibited in the first quarter of 2024. Photographed on location in the harsh and unforgiving wilderness of Outback Australia, the exhibition comprises twenty-five, large scale, C type, photographs, throughout which Rimmer attempts to establish a thematic thread…
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British 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…
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This 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…
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Amapondo 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…
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