Photographs by Holger Rumpff

Dr Holger Rumpff (1952 - 2000)

Holger's photography was all created using manual cameras, and digitising his collection is still in progress.

Each iconic image of Christmas Island is through his eyes, and has been professionally scanned from the original 35mm film negative at very high resolution.

Prints are offered in a variety of archival-grade papers:

GLOSSY PRINTS

From Hahnemuehle FineArt; archival giclée prints displaying incredible detail. It is a low-weight, cellulose paper with an optimised inkjet coating for photo application.

The smooth, very light textured paper has a pleasant warm tone whiteness.

HAHNENMUEHLE PHOTO RAG 188

The white cotton artist’s paper, has a lightly defined felt structure, lending each artwork a three-dimensional appearance and impressive pictorial depth the ideal combination of structure, print quality and weight makes Photo Rag® one of the most versatile Fine Art inkjet papers.

CANVAS GICLEE PRINTS 

Supplied as unmounted, rolled canvas prints

Hahnemuhle Goya Canvas - 340 gsm, poly-cotton, natural white, satin-finish coated. Acid free and no OBAs guarantee archival standards. The brilliant satin-finish coating does not require varnishing after printing.

The image is printed onto canvas which is supplied with a 60mm border for mounting. Carefully rolled, interleaved with acid free tissue paper and delivered in a strong mailing tube. Ready for you or your framer to stretch mount.

More about Holger...

Dr Holger Rumpff (1952-2000)

Holger first arrived on Christmas Island from Germany in 1979 to study the Island’s Robber Crab (Birgus Latro).

In 1988 he settled back on Christmas Island with his wife Patricia and daughter Tilke, making the island home.

Over the ensuing years Holger’s talents, skills and knowledge were to become well-known and recognised, and he was recruited to the position of Environment Officer with the Australian Nature Conservation Agency (now Parks Australia), where he quickly became an integral member of the team.

Holger enjoyed sharing his knowledge of Christmas Island with others, and his love of the Island’s unique environment is legendary.

He was instrumental in pioneering the raising of the CI community’s awareness of the plight of the Red crab during migration, and played a major role in documenting Christmas Island’s natural history and culture.