Titel:
Silence
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the Western Australian wheatbelt; photographs by Brad Rimmer; [... at the Fremantle Prison Gallery during Fotofreo 2010 from 19 March to 16 May 2010]
Beschreibung:
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. Brad Rimmer has won the City of Perth Photo Image Award three times and in 1997 took second place in the Santa Fe Assignment Earth Prize for Photography in the USA. His work has been shown in international solo exhibitions including the 2005 UWA Perth International Arts Festival, the 2004, 2005 and 2008 Pingyao and the 2006 Lianzhou International Photo Festivals in China, the 2006 Brighton Photo Biennial in the UK, Kaunas Photo 08 in Lithuania, and Photoforum PasquArt in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland