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Simon Roberts: We English
Gallery One, National Media Museum, Bradford.
12 March 2010 – 5 September 2010
During 2007 – 08, British photographer Simon Roberts travelled the length and breadth ofEngland with his family in a motorhome, photographing people playing, relaxing and
revelling in the country’s richly varied landscape. Gathered together as We English, his works are an intriguing and lyrical, personal exploration of the nation.
Printed, mounted and framed by Spectrum
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Simon’s project reflects the strong heritage of British landscape and documentary photography, and the exhibition will include a complementary selection of photographs from the National Media Museum’s Collection, including works by Roger Fenton, Tony Ray Jones and John Davies.
Greg Hobson, Curator of Photographs at the National Media Museum said: “Simon Roberts is an important photographer whose practice extends the great traditions of British Landscape photography. We are very excited to be hosting the premier of this substantial project and proud that we were able to support it through the Museum's PhotographyBursaries."
Locations featured in the exhibition include Skegness Beach, Aintree Racecourse, Malvern Hills, South Downs Way and Bolton Abbey, taking in events from golf to paragliding, picnics to parties, and camping to racing across mud flats. The large prints rejoice in their subjects, showing a fantastic level of detail across expanses of terrain and the collective activities taking place.
Simon said: “Looking at the activities we partake in outdoors struck me as a thought provoking way of exploring England’s shifting cultural and national identity. They seem to say much more about who we are than, for instance, what we do in the workplace. And landscape is an intrinsic part of these experiences. I was interested in the way that we transform the English landscape, how we utilise, consume and enjoy it.”
The National Media Museum is the first major venue to exhibit the works. Thirty-six of Simon’s images will be on display, including a final photograph, commissioned by the Museum, of people at leisure in the Bradford District.
Simon’s relationship with the National Media Museum began in 2007 when he was one of the recipients of the inaugural National Media Museum Bursary, an annual scheme that supports photographers by offering a share of £20,000 for specific photography and art projects. The Bursary helped Simon complete We English.
www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/exhibition/simonroberts
www.we-english.co.uk
Greg Hobson, Curator of Photographs at the National Media Museum said: “Simon Roberts is an important photographer whose practice extends the great traditions of British Landscape photography. We are very excited to be hosting the premier of this substantial project and proud that we were able to support it through the Museum's PhotographyBursaries."
Locations featured in the exhibition include Skegness Beach, Aintree Racecourse, Malvern Hills, South Downs Way and Bolton Abbey, taking in events from golf to paragliding, picnics to parties, and camping to racing across mud flats. The large prints rejoice in their subjects, showing a fantastic level of detail across expanses of terrain and the collective activities taking place.
Simon said: “Looking at the activities we partake in outdoors struck me as a thought provoking way of exploring England’s shifting cultural and national identity. They seem to say much more about who we are than, for instance, what we do in the workplace. And landscape is an intrinsic part of these experiences. I was interested in the way that we transform the English landscape, how we utilise, consume and enjoy it.”
The National Media Museum is the first major venue to exhibit the works. Thirty-six of Simon’s images will be on display, including a final photograph, commissioned by the Museum, of people at leisure in the Bradford District.
Simon’s relationship with the National Media Museum began in 2007 when he was one of the recipients of the inaugural National Media Museum Bursary, an annual scheme that supports photographers by offering a share of £20,000 for specific photography and art projects. The Bursary helped Simon complete We English.
www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/exhibition/simonroberts
www.we-english.co.uk
