Christopher Rimmer 'Once Were Kings, South Australia' seaside depicts the canals of Hamburg

depicts the canals of Hamburg

Rimmer finds unexpected poignancy in long-forgotten debris

Signed: Each screen print is signed and numbered in pencil in margin below image

both swept in movement and sand

their faces framed by the vehicle’s windows

Christopher Rimmer 'Once Were Kings, South Australia' seaside depicts the canals of HamburgIn 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,