POC at Format
Image: Installing framed prints by Seba Kurtis at Darley Mills © Bert Dankaert Check out our POC Collective exhibition currently on show as part of the Format Festival in Derby. More information here.
View ArticleElection Project Newspaper
Copies of The Election Project newspaper are currently available for free at Flowers Gallery in London during the run of the exhibition Nicola Green – In Seven Days…. / Simon Roberts – The Election...
View ArticleLandmark Exhibition Installation Shots
Prints from We English and XXX Olympiad on show at Somerset House as part of the Landmark exhibition. More information about the show here and additional installation shots on Flowers Gallery website...
View ArticleSomeone I Know
Jemima and the cross, Brighton, 13 March 2013 © Simon Roberts This photograph of my daughter was taken for the project Someone I Know, conceived and curated by Stuart Pilkington it brings together...
View ArticleEarly Works Project
I was recently invited to participate in a project called Early Works, conceived by Photo Lucida. Here is the text for my selected photograph (seen above): It’s 1979 and a weekend trip to visit my...
View ArticleMaggie
Maggie by Lisa Barnard from the book Chateau Despair (GOST, 2013). See the full series here and read a review by Andrew Rawnsley in the Guardian here.
View ArticleRemembering Tim Hetherington
Promo Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? is a new film by Sebastian Junger charting the life of photographer Tim Hetherington. On April 20, 2011, shortly after the release of his documentary...
View ArticleBirgitta Lund’s The Garden
New on the studio shelf – Birgitta Lund’s mesmerizing publication ‘The Garden published by Space Poetry (Denmark). The Garden is a contemporary photographic tale that uses Tivoli Gardens, an old...
View ArticleBlyth Video
http://blythvideo.com/ BLYTH is a Hi-8 video about a myth of transcendence. Retrogressing to a time of foolhearted optimism nurtured by an aspirational government, BLYTH is gently satirical and...
View ArticleThere’s Really No Such Thing As Professional Photographers
“There’s no such thing as Flickr Pro today because [with so many people taking photographs] there’s really no such thing as professional photographers anymore,” declared Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer today....
View ArticleSave the National Media Museum in Bradford
Photo: Esa Naseem with his banner © Bradford Telegraph & Argus Dear Chancellor, please consider the impact of the comprehensive spending review on 26th June 2013 on the National Media Museum in...
View ArticleNews in Briefs
Good to know that Lucy, today’s Page 3 girl in The Sun newspaper, is so concerned about uncollected council taxes. Read the full story here.
View ArticleThe Work of Sergei Vasiliev
The work of Sergei Vasiliev currently on show at the Saatchi Gallery as part of their group show ‘GAIETY IS THE MOST OUTSTANDING FEATURE OF THE SOVIET UNION’. Sergei Vasiliev was born in 1937 in...
View ArticleOn Press for Pierdom
We’ve just signed-off Pierdom monograph on press at EBS in Verona, Italy.
View ArticleReverse Cumulus
Clouds photographed from airplane flying from Verona – London © Simon Roberts, June 2013 Referring to photographing clouds, there’s an article this month on the Media Space blog...
View ArticleCloud Choreography, Keith Tyson
Image: Print from Keith Tyson’s Cloud Choreography Keith Tyson won the Turner Prize in 2002, with an exhibition of humming machines and large-scale paintings dissecting the mysteries of the universe....
View ArticleA Tale of Three Piers
A Tale of Three Piers aired on Radio 4′s Open Country last week. Helen Mark takes a day at the seaside to visit the romance of piers. They have been hailed as great examples of Victorian architecture...
View ArticlePreparing Pierdom Prints
Viewing test strips of Pierdom prints prepared by Spectrum Photographic for upcoming Flowers Gallery exhibition.
View ArticleInspired by Stubbs
I’m working on a commission this weekend at Wilton House for Aston Martin, which is inspired by the paintings of George Stubbs. Watch this space.
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