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Christopher Rimmer is a British born photographer best known for his large, monochromatic images of African subjects.

Christopher Rimmer was born in Ormskirk, Lancashire England in 1963 and emigrated to South Africa in 1972. He began taking photographs as a teenager with a plastic 35mm Hanimex camera selling his first photograph to the South African angling magazine Tight Lines as a fifteen year old in 1980.

After immigrating to Australia in 1981, Rimmer in did an arts degree majoring in photography at Rusden College were he gained experience in the use of large and medium format film cameras. Following graduation, he taught darkroom printing at three Melbourne schools. He was appointed Victorian editor of Scuba Action Magazine in 1991 and spent hundreds of hours taking underwater photographs in many of the world's most popular scuba diving locations locations like the Red Sea and the Great Barrier many of which featured in the pages of this best selling publication. He returned to southern Africa in 2006 to coincide with the 25th anniversary of his departure for Australia His photography the captures the facinating people, starkly beautiful landscapes and the magnificent wildlife of Southern Africa.

His photographs have been published in many Australian and international publications. He has exhibited in group and solo shows both in Australia and in the United Kingdom. He is represented in several public and many private collections. He obtained an Excellence accreditation in the Federation International de l'Art photographique in 2009 and platinum in 2010. He is a member of the Royal Photographic Society and was recently shortlisted for British magazine B&W Photographer of the Year. Rimmer's work made international news in October, 2010 when Facebook banned his images of breast feeding African women from the site on the grounds that they were unfit to be viewed by minors. His most recent exhibition Christopher Rimmer - In Africa opened in Melbourne, Australia in March, 2011 and was a critical success and one of the highest grossing photographic exhibitions of the year. Most recently along with Art Wolfe and Cathy Bernot, he was invited to participate in the Fifty Photographers in Madagascar Project held each year by de l'association les photographes de l'espoir in France. Recently Rimmer announced that he would be exhibiting a new collection of African work entitled, Spirits Speak at Galleria Rocco In Melbourne, Australia.

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