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Bingo Rimér

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Bingo Rimér
Bingo Rimér in 2015
Born
Björn Oluf Rimér

(1975-06-23) 23 June 1975 (age 49)
Occupation(s)Photographer, magazine editor
Spouse
Angelica Bremert
(m. 2006; div. 2008)
Partner(s)Erika Moen
Katrin Zytomierska (2009-2015)
Children3

Bingo Rimér (born Björn Oluf Rimér; 23 June, 1975) is a Swedish photographer.

Career

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Photography

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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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

Some of his exhibitions are Swedish Blonds (New York, 1998), Havanna Rules (Stockholm, 2000) and Sexy by Sweden (New York, 2006).[citation needed] Along with his exhibitions, he has created portraits for Carmen Electra, Steven Tyler, Peter Stormare, Lambretta.[citation needed]

Sexy By Sweden

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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

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Rimér co-founded the casting agency girls.se in 1997. The agency has since changed its name to Bingo Models.[1]

Moore of Sweden

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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.[2] Moore featured some of Sweden's most prevalent glamour models.[citation needed] 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.[3]

Lejon Media Gruppen AB

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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

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He married the Swedish Big Brother contestant, Angelica Rimér (née Bremert) in a ceremony in Las Vegas during the spring of 2006. [4] 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.[5]

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).[6]

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".[7]

Bibliography

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  • En flickfotografs bekännelser (2010)
  • Snapshots: Bingos bästa bilder och historierna bakom dem (2011)
  • Bingos fotoskola: proffsfotografens bästa tips (2014)

References

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  1. ^ Bingomodels Archived 28 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Myspace Bingo Rimer
  3. ^ Bingo Rimer Archived 2 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Bingo Rimér har gift sig". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). 13 April 2006. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  5. ^ Stureplan – Bingo Rimer
  6. ^ "Han föddes i mars - men först nu har Katrin Zytomierskas son fått ett namn". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). 3 May 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Bingo Rimér has filed his company "Vinst" for bankruptcy". omniekonomi.se (in Swedish). 13 June 2020.
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