A profile of Simon Roberts’ Pierdom project on the occasion of a major exhibition at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (October 2015 – February 2016). The film, by Lindsey Smith, explores Roberts’ working process, the inspiration behind the project and the history of the British Pleasure Pier.
My Desert Island Pics interview with Stephen Bull is now available to listen to on the Photoworks website. In this talk for London Art Fair 2015, I reveal the eight photographs I’d like to have with me if castaway on a desert island. I discuss my choices and how they reflect on my life and career.
As a teaser, here’s my first selected image taken by an unknown photographer with my Dad’s camera. My Dad appears on the far left of the photograph with three university friends at the Houston Greyhound station during a three-month road trip across American in 1967.
See the rest of the photographs and listen to the interview here: http://photoworks.org.uk/projects/listen-simon-roberts-desert-island-pics/
Image: Outtake for my print ‘Ladies Day, Aintree, Merseyside, 2008’ from We English
Here is an interview I did recently with Joshua Dudley Greer for his series Outtakes.
Outtakes is a series of interviews with contemporary photographers who have been asked to share alternate versions of some of their most meaningful, successful and celebrated images. By looking at these outtakes along with the final image and by hearing from the artist directly, we hope to examine the different working methods and criteria that photographers regularly employ in an effort to push past the romanticism of the singular, iconic image and learn more about the way photographs are really made.
I’m being castaway for Desert Island Pics with Stephen Bull at the London Art Fair.
Please join us on Saturday 24 January, 11am-12pm.
‘Desert Island Pics’ is an ongoing series of Photoworks talks loosely based on the format of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. At this talk, Simon will reveal his choice of eight photographs and discuss how they reflect his life and career with regular Desert Island Pics host Stephen Bull. Previous Desert Island Pics castaways include Martin Parr, Alison Jackson and Jeremy Deller.
Entry is free to LAF15 ticket holders, but booking for this event is essential.
Special discount London Art Fair ticket offer: Save 30% on the advance purchase price by using the discount code LAF837 before 31 December 2014.
Find out more and book tickets here.
You can listen to previous Desert Island Pics talks on Photoworks website here.
I will also be exhibiting work at the LAF15 with Flowers Gallery on stand 3. Details here.
I recently did an interview for Photofusion talking about my practice and role as patron of the organisation. You can view it here: https://vimeo.com/95971786
I’m included in the current issue of Professional Photographer magazine’s 100 Photography Heroes.
Francis and I chewing the photo-cud last night at Flowers Gallery, flanked by a print of Worthing Pier from Pierdom.
Photographer Will Steacy discusses his work ‘Down These Mean Streets’ during a studio visit in Philadelphia, September 2012.
This week I was interviewed along with artist Nicola Green for BBC Radio 4″s Front Row arts programme. The feature was exploring “what does an artist see in an election campaign?”
Nicola Green was discussing her role as an artist in resident during Barack Obama”s 2008 presidential campaign, while I was asked about my official Election Artist for the UK”s 2010 General Election. We discussed our experiences of following politicians on the campaign trail.
You can hear the interview online here or download an mp3 file (5mb) here.
Green”s series, “In Seven Days…” is currently on show at the in Liverpool, whilst you can see my Election Project series in Parliament by contacting the Curator”s office at the Palace of Westminster.
Image: Polling station, Goodman Park, Slough, 6th May 2010 © Simon Roberts from The Election Project
An interview I did with Lars Boering during De Donkere Kamer #12 at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam, where I discuss my practice, projects and books. September 17, 2012.