Title: Silence: The Western Australian Wheatbelt

Photographer/s: Brad Rimmer

Contributor/s: Essays by Susan Bright and Paola Anselmi

Date of publication: 2010

Place of publication: Australia

Dimensions: 9 x 10.25 inches

Type of binding: hard cover

Number of pages: 96 pages

Number of pictures: 51

Printer: Printed in Taiwan

Publisher: T&G Publishing

Editor: Fiona Upward

Language: English

ISBN: 9780977579068

Category: monograph

Price: $50.00

Summary: “I was worried about revisiting my old home and going inside the house, but I had no real connection at all. Everything that was in my mind had gone and I felt a strange relief. On my way out of town that evening I thought of how many people had left and never returned, just left for good. I’d never thought about that before.”

Silence is Brad Rimmer’s intensely personal and sometimes painful monograph of life in the once-thriving wheatbelt towns of Western Australia. Born in Wyalkatchem in 1962, Rimmer chose at nineteen to escape what he saw then as a bleak future. In Silence, he presents images that capture the region’s permeating dust, heat and isolation and negotiates a delicate balance between hope and despair in his frank portraits of those who remain.

The launch of this book accompanied the exhibition “Silence: The Western Australian Wheatbelt” at the Fremantle Prison Gallery during FotoFreo 2010 – 19 March to 16 May.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: Wyalkatchem in 1962

Website: http://www.bradrimmer.com/

Book link: http://www.bradrimmer.com/Text_page.cfm?pID=4728

Donated by: Brad Rimmer

iPL Notes: Received at the New York Photo Festival 2011.