Yosl Bergner 'The Dedicated Photographer, from The Kimberley Album' figurative making this work a kind

making this work a kind of peripheral self-portrait

Tony Park said Rimmer’s work looked so deeply into Africa’s heart that you could almost feel the heat and taste the dust

'Rocky Bay

the work is warm in palette but lively in form

titled & edition in margin

Yosl Bergner 'The Dedicated Photographer, from The Kimberley Album' figurative making this work a kindThe story behind this work is stranger than fiction. It begins in 1933 when Yiddish poet, playwright, essayist and activist Melech Ravitch (a pseudonym for Zekharye Khone Bergner) left Europe in search of a new home for Europes increasingly threatened Jewish population. He arrived in Australia with the fantasy that among the Kimberleys lied the Promised Land for his people. Decades later his son, the acclaimed artist Yosl Bergner, memorialised this