Memory and cultural idiosyncrasies inform the photographic works by Brad Rimmer. The recollection of growing up in rural Australia, the quietness of the landscape and the silence of the unspoken word. The series Silence alludes to the shifts in rural expansion and its demise, the changes in the social structures where the advent of the car, transport, better road infrastructures opened the way for new experiences. Where the once insular town has slowly lost its youth, its lifeblood and now exists as a residue of memory.  Through contemplative and introspective images Brad Rimmer searches for the familiar; the recognisable elements whi...

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The Blue Room Eugene Richard’s first colour project, a moving, highly personal project that brings together the themes that encompass all of Richards’ work – what he describes as the ‘transient nature of things’. The photographs are portraits of the abandoned and forgotten houses of western America in areas such as the plains of Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico and the Dakotas. In the early twentieth century, railroads lured settlers west with the promises of homesteads and towns rose across the plains. But in the wake of the Depression and the dust storms of the 1930s the towns faltered then failed. Richards enig...

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