Nowhere NearAustralian photographer Brad Rimmer completes a trilogy with Nowhere Near. Over the past 20 years while traversing the Western Australian Wheatbelt photographing the series Silence (2009) and Nature Boy (2019) he noticed how many small, isolated community halls had disappeared. Towns where populations peaked in the 1970s have either disappeared or become desperately depleted of youth and opportunity. Their halls which once brimmed with life and were

Waddon (“the hill where woad grows”) and Croydon itself – the name is thought to mean “crocus valley”

In 2020 he was a finalist in the Palm* Prize and awarded a GRAIN Covid-19 response bursary

The reading material may have changed from books and magazines to mobile phones

and Jane Fonda

In 1997 he collaborated with Professor Bill Jay on the textbook

It can be considered a reflection on the act of photography itself

as tragedies seem to flow effortlessly from one generation to the next

He studied film and television production at the West Surrey College of Art & Design

A second exhibition followed in 2003 at Sheffield Graves Art Gallery and in 2010

James Boswell in his Life of Johnson explains in the entry for 23 March 1776 that ‘oat cakes not hard as in Scotland

In the early 1990s Constantine had recently moved from Manchester to London for her photography career and had been commissioned to photograph night clubs for The Face magazine

” - Mark Durden