Christopher Rimmer 'Soldier Settlement, South Australia' printmaking Clarice Beckett IMAGES

Clarice Beckett IMAGES

Sciberras carves out the land’s texture

(c) Frank Hodgkinson / Copyright Agency

we can understand these doves as religious

so still despite their precarity

Christopher Rimmer 'Soldier Settlement, South Australia' printmaking Clarice Beckett IMAGESIn 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 failed ambition abandoned service stations, unfinished railways lines and rusted debris. Soldier Settlement, South Australia is a portrait of a crumbled policy. It speaks to an event in Australian history when soldiers returning from World War I