Bingo Rimér (born Björn Oluf Rimér; 23 June, 1975) is a Swedish photographer.
Career
Photography
After graduating as a student in photography in 1994, Rimér started his career working two years in Studio
Magnus Reed. He has worked as an in-house photographer for Swedish publications such as ''
Slitz'', ''
Magazine Café'' and ''
Playboy
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In addition to his glamour work, Rimér has worked with Levi's, Universal Music, Warner, Panos, EMI, Playboy, Zomba Records, Hachette, Leo Burnett, TBWA, BMG and MTV.
Some of his exhibitions are ''Swedish Blonds'' (New York, 1998), ''Havanna Rules'' (Stockholm, 2000) and ''Sexy by Sweden'' (New York, 2006). Along with his exhibitions, he has created portraits for
Carmen Electra
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Steven Tyler
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Peter Stormare
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Lambretta
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Sexy By Sweden
In 2006, Swedish television company
TV6 produced a mini-series about Rimér's life. The first episode of "Being Bingo" was broadcast 3 October 2006. The series was also used as a marketing platform for the launch of Sexy By Sweden, Rimér's line of women's fashion and a website. During the seven episodes Swedish viewers could follow Rimér in his work to launch the brand.
Bingo Models
Rimér co-founded the casting agency girls.se in 1997. The agency has since changed its name to Bingo Models.
Moore of Sweden
Rimér is also the co-founder of publishing company
Lejon Media Gruppen AB which publishes
Moore Magazine and
Pause Magazine. In August 2003, he became the editor-in-chief for ''
Moore Magazine''.
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Moore featured some of Sweden's most prevalent glamour models. In 2005, Rimér left the magazine but still does editorial work for it. After leaving the magazine he has focused on other projects, one of which is ''sexy.se'', a Swedish lingerie website of which he is the co-founder.
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Lejon Media Gruppen AB
Together with Svante Tegnér he started Lejon Media in 2001. Lejon Media Gruppen is a Swedish, independent media and communications agency that produces, manages and develops on-line portals, magazines, events, social media content, brand ambassadors, etc. all tied to its publications/titles. The publications have individual target audiences, which together cover women and men 15 to 45 years of age throughout Sweden.
Personal life
He married the Swedish ''
Big Brother'' contestant, Angelica Rimér (née Bremert) in a ceremony in
Las Vegas
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during the spring of 2006. On 14 September 2007, Angelica announced that the couple had split. Angelica filed for divorce on 28 August 2008 citing irreconcilable differences. He has a daughter named Nova (born 2003) from a previous relationship with Erika Moen.
From 2009 to 2015, he was in a relationship with
Katrin Zytomierska with whom he had two sons, Ringo (born in 2010) and Rambo (born in 2013).
On June 13, 2020, due to the
COVID-19 crisis, Rimér had to file for bankruptcy and shut down his company "Vinst". Saying "Kan inte betala" or translated into English "Can not pay".
Bibliography
*''En flickfotografs bekännelser'' (2010)
*''Snapshots: Bingos bästa bilder och historierna bakom dem'' (2011)
*''Bingos fotoskola: proffsfotografens bästa tips'' (2014)
References
External links
Bingo Models*
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1975 births
Living people
Swedish photographers
People from Karlshamn Municipality
Artists from Blekinge County