Laura Pannack who was our PPRD guest speaker last week mentioned Simon Roberts, a British photographer whom she had at some point assisted and had cited as an inspiration and as her mentor. As I had liked her work so much, I thought I would take a look at his.....

For his project called 'We English', he spent 6 months driving around the British Isles with his wife and young daughter in a motor home. Being guided by people who wrote location suggestions for him to photograph on his blog, Simon used an old 5x4 field camera which he says "was quite laborious and often very public. I had anticipated that there might be problems in situations where there were lots of people close to the camera - like photographing on beaches - but by the time I'd finished setting up, any curious onlookers had lost interest and turned away, thereby allowing me to achieve very spontaneous images".







I think they are really beautiful and remind me of Gursky's landscapes although with a much more English flavour of course.