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Christopher Rimmer is an award winning photographer currently based in Melbourne, Australia specialising in African subject matter.
In an attempt to articulate the visceral potency of Christopher Rimmer’s photography, the author, Tony Park said Rimmer’s work looked so deeply into Africa’s heart that you could almost feel the heat and taste the dust.
Christopher Rimmer was born in England and emigrated to South Africa as a child. He began taking photographs as a teenager with a plastic 35mm Hanimex camera. After immigrating to Australia in 1981, he studied photography formally, firstly under Werner Hammerstingl and then later at Rusden College under Paul Green. He graduated in 1991.
His critically acclaimed photographs have been widely published in media around the world. He has exhibited in group and solo shows both in Australia and in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, South Africa & the U.S. His work is represented in several corporate and notable private collections. He obtained an Excellence accreditation in the Federation International de l’Art photographique in 2009 and platinum in 2010 and in 2012 received an Honourable Mention at the Montargis National Contest in France. He is a member of the Royal Photographic Society and was shortlisted for British magazine B&W Photographer of the Year for his work in Southern Africa in 2011 and again in 2012.
In 2014 his work ‘Sign of Life’ was screened at Visa Pour L’Image, Perpignan in France and the Ankor Photographic Festival in Cambodia.
Christopher Rimmer’s critically acclaimed Amapondo, series featuring Nuguni cattle photographed on the east coast of South Africa, debuted at the New York Art Fair in April 2015 and was later accessed online by more than 25 million people leading to Art Business News Magazine nominating him the Top Artist to Watch in their 2015 summer edition.
More recently, Christopher Rimmer exhibited large scale images of Luna Park, a one hundred year old fairground and a local land mark in his adopted city of Melbourne as well as commencing work in Angola and Namibia on a new series, Confluence, Tradition & Modernity & the Last Tribes of the Kunene River which will be released on 9 April 2019.
Press releases
The Vanishing World of Africa's Last Tribes Captured by Award Winning...
British photographer, Christopher Rimmer presents the last tribes of Africa in a breath taking series of large-scale photographic portraits.... read more
19.06.2019 • By Christopher Rimmer
