Brad Rimmer: FotoFreo Director & Photographer

Brad Rimmer (b. 1962), a Perth based photographer, has received the City of Perth Photo Image Award 3 times and was a recipient of a 1997 Santa Fe Assignment Earth Prize for Photography in the USA. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions locally and abroad including the 2004 Pingyao International Photography Festival in China.

Brad Rimmer's photography is carefully consructed so that the seemingly straight forward documentation of places and people produces images which border on the surreal.

Projects include; Roma Romania the Romanian Romanies, Chang Jiang, life on the Yangtze River, In View 1 & 2, portraits of Fremantle artists in their landscape, A Toy Camera in China, black and white Holga images, How Now Mao, China in the new millennium and The space in between, an ongoing project looking at West Australians and the landscape.

His photographs are in National and International public and private collections and he is represented by BBK Editions Photo Agency, 17 rue Dupin, 75006 Paris

Brad Rimmer was part of the original group established to organise the FotoFreo festivals. He has been an active part of the organising committee ever since and a member of the board of management of FotoFreo Inc since its incorporation in 2003. He is currently the festival exhibition coordinator.

Brad is represented in Paris by Corinne Krebs of BBK Editions - photo agency. (3 rue stanislas 75 006 Paris Tel: 01 4544 5608)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005 How Now Mao, Fremantle Arts Centre
2005 One Time Zone / 2 Surfaces, Perth International Arts Festival
2004 The Space In Between, Pingyao International Photography Festival China
2002 China ‘Toy Camera’, FotoFreo Photographic Festival, Fremantle
2000 Chang Jiang, Fremantle Arts Centre
1997 Roma Romania, (assisted by Medicins sans Frontieres) Fremantle Arts Centre
1995 In View Two, Fremantle Festival, The Door exhibition Space
1994 In View 94, Fremantle Festival, The Door Exhibition Space
1993 Polaroid’s, (sponsored by Polaroid Australia) The Photography Gallery of WA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005 Between a blink + recognition, The Church Gallery Perth
2004 2004 Joondalup Invitation Art Award, Joondalup
2003 Difficult and Desperate Times, Fremantle Arts Centre
2002 Love your Work, 30th Anniversary Fremantle Arts Centre
2002 Landscape, Images from the book Picnic, Fremantle Arts Centre
2001 City of Perth Cultural Award Council House, Perth
2000 Into the Blue, Perth International Arts Festival, Photography Gallery of WA
1998 Silo, Fremantle Arts Centre
1998 City Image Award Central Park, Perth
1997 Assignment Earth, Santa Fe Centre for Visual Arts, USA
1996 City of Perth Photographic Award Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
1996 Clisee De Identitate, Muzeul National de Arta Romania
1995 Going West, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry England UK
1994 ‘Life’ A Photographic Exhibition, Continental Hotel, Perth
1994 The Agfa National Invitation Photographic Award, NSW
1992 The Anniversary Exhibition, Claremont School of Art Gallery
1992 The Cannon Professional Photography Award, The Photography Gallery of WA
1992 The Portrait Show, The Photography Gallery of WA
1992 The Inaugural Exhibition, The Photography Gallery of WA

AWARDS & GRANTS

2004 ArtsWA Travel Grant to attend The Pingyao International Photography Festival China
2001 City of Perth Cultural Award Photography
2000 ArtsWA Travel Grant to attend Les Rencontres Photo Festival, Arles France
1998 City of Perth Photographic Award
1997 Assignment Earth Santa Fe New Mexico, USA
1996 City of Perth Photographic Award
1993 Honourable Mention Australian Institute of Professional Photographers

COLLECTIONS

Santa Fe Centre for Visual Arts USA
Department of Justice WA
City of Perth Art Collection
City of Fremantle Art Collection
Private Collections Nationally and Internationally

PUBLICATIONS

2002 PICNIC, Fremantle Art Centre Press
1998 PASSION FOR PULSES, Department of Agriculture Western Australia, The University of Western Australia, CSIRO and Murdoch University.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2005 Ric Spencer ‘People in their Places’ The Western Australian, Sat 14 May
2002 Sophie Zalokar ‘When Life’s a Picnic’ Good Weekend, 26 October
2000 Robert Cook ‘Love that View’ The Western Australian, Sat 10 February
2000 Robert Cook ‘A voyeur’s voyage on the Yangtze’ The West Australian, 5 January
1994 Jonathon Smith ‘View to a Life’ Fremantle Herald, 8 November
1993 David Bromfield, The West Australian, Saturday 11 September

CONTACT DETAILS

PO Box 1147 FREMANTLE WA 6959
bradphotorimmer@ozemail.com.au

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