and Alice’s upside-down face in the final segment
Signed: Each screen print is signed and numbered in pencil in margin below image
their faces framed by the vehicle’s windows
Rimmer finds unexpected poignancy in long-forgotten debris
there also lies a warning to be cautious: enjoy the sun but dont let yourself drift too far beyond the horizon
Christopher Rimmer 'Once Were Kings, South Australia' seaside and Alice’s upside-down face inIn his series, Remnant, photographer Christopher Rimmer descends into the Australian outback. Set against the backdrop of covid, the resulting photographs are portraits of isolation, the Australian sublime and exhausted ambition abandoned service stations, unfinished railways lines and rusted debris. Once Were Kings, South Australia is an image of an abandoned relic from the old Ghan Railway Line. After more than a decade of precarious construction,