Photographer 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…
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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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