Brad Rimmer’s Nature Boy returns to the Western Australian Wheatbelt, the rural region where the photographer grew up, to consider how landscape shapes identity, belonging, memory, and the feeling of place. Published in 2019 by T&G Publishing Pty, Limited, the book is rooted in the tension between fine-art and documentary photography: its subject is not simply the countryside, but the emotional and cultural life that gathers around it.

The work is both visual and written. Rimmer adds short stories to the photographic sequence, creating a personal narrative in which observation and recollection meet. He approaches the Wheatbelt as both witness and participant, reconnecting with a landscape whose familiarity has become charged with distance, memory, and estrangement. This dual position gives the book a distinctive inwardness while keeping its attention on the social and geographic character of rural Australia.

Nature Boy deserves attention for the way it extends documentary practice beyond straightforward record. The photographs and texts examine the cultural particularities of a place while asking how an individual psyche is affected by the natural environment. In this sense, the book belongs to a sustained Australian tradition of landscape and social documentation, yet its combination of image and short fiction marks a clear development in Rimmer’s practice.

An English-language hardcover of 93 pages, Nature Boy is a focused account of return: to a region, to formative experience, and to the unstable boundary between knowing a place and seeing it anew. For collectors interested in contemporary Australian photography, it offers a concentrated example of Rimmer’s long-term engagement with portraiture, landscape, and social observation, while making the book form itself part of the work’s meaning.