Silence
Brad Rimmer
T & G Publishing
Essays by Susan Bright and Paola Anselmi.
Hardcover
96 pages
230 x 257 mm
2011
ISBN 9780977579068
Silence is Brad Rimmer’s intensely personal and sometimes painful monograph of life in the once-thriving wheatbelt towns of Western Australia. Born in Wyalkatchem in 1962 Rimmer chose at nineteen to escape what he saw then as a bleak future. In Silence, he presents images that capture the region’s permeating dust, heat and isolation negotiating a delicate balance between hope and despair in his frank portraits of those who remain.
“I was worried about revisiting my old home and going inside the house, but I had no real connection at all. Everything that was in my mind had gone and I felt a strange relief. On my way out of town that evening I thought of how many people had left and never returned, just left for good. I’d never thought about that before,” – Brad Rimmer.
About the Artist
Brad Rimmer is an Australian photographer based in Perth who works on long-term projects of portraiture, landscape and social documentation. Based in Fremantle, he seeks to uncover the human within often alienating everyday environs. He is the author of three photo books with T&G Publishing: Silence (2010), Don’t Look Down (2019), and Nature Boy (2019).
bradrimmer.net
About the Publisher
Australian-based award winning T&G Publishing specialises in establishing a creative dialogue with the acclaimed photographers they publish. Using the finest design and most advanced printing practices, T&G are committed to showcasing elite photographic art.
tgpublishing.com
Further Reading
(Source https://www.lensculture.com/books/5317-silence-the-western-australian-wheatbelt)
