Photograph: Amerta Movement Workshop, Avebury Henge, Wiltshire, 2nd June 2008
© Simon Roberts, from We English
Positive View Foundation has unveiled details of its next major exhibition to be held at London’s Somerset House in London this March – a sweeping overview of the rich genre of 21st Century Landscape photography. The novel exhibition is the first of its kind anywhere to show both the harsh, even brutal realities of the changing environment, as well as its enduring and stunning beauty.
The exhibition will include several of my prints from We English and XXX Olympiad. There is more information available here.
‘Landmark: the Fields of Photography’ is a wide-ranging and ground-breaking exhibition featuring more than 70 of the world’s most highly regarded photographers from North and South America, Africa, Europe and Asia, with many of them showcasing previously unseen and recently completed works. The exhibition will run from 14th March – 28th April 2013 and is curated by the globally respected curator, William A. Ewing.
Focusing on our rapidly changing planet, ‘Landmark: the Fields of Photography’ features more than 170 original works of art taken by enterprising photographers employing technology ranging from 19th Century plate-camera techniques to the use of planes, drones, robots and even satellites to capture vivid images of earth’s varied terrain – and even distant planets. Many of the major names in photography are represented: Mitch Epstein, Nadav Kandar, Ryan McGinley, Robert Adams, Simon Norfolk, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lee Friedlander, Simon Roberts, Toshio Shibata, Robert Polidori and many others contributing spectacular imagery. Also featured are striking images by a younger generation of photographers: Pieter Hugo, Susan Evans, Raphael Dallaporta, Penelope Umbrico, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, and others.
Exhibition hashtag: #LandmarkExhibition
Image: Blackpool High Street, 2008 © Simon Roberts.
I will be giving a talk at the University of Nottingham, School of Geography as part of their research seminar program.
ALL WELCOME!
For any queries about the seminar please contact: [email protected]
The School is at the forefront of research into Cultural Geography. Work by Stephen Daniels , David Matless, Briony McDonagh, Susanne Seymour and Charles Watkins has explored the relationship between the design, representation and experience of landscape and the formation of personal, local, national and imperial identities in England from the 16th century to the present day. This longstanding English focus in work at Nottingham has been supplemented by Alex Vasudevan’s research on the landscapes of contemporary photography
I’m giving away a signed poster to ten people who email me their photography-related New Year’s resolution. I’ll select the ten best and post up the winning entries next week.
Please send an email to [email protected] with you resolution and don’t forget to provide your postal address.
The poster features the photograph ‘Blackpool Promenade, Lancashire, 24th July 2008’ from my series We English, which was produced in conjunction with an exhibition at EX3 in Florence, Italy. The back of the poster features an interview where I discuss making the work (in Italian and English).
An exhibition of We English will be on show at the Phos cultural centre in Torino, Italy from 31st January to 1st March 2013.
Join us for the opening on January 31st 2013, 6.30 pm.
Please see the centre’s website for more details- http://www.phosfotografia.com/en/event/we-english/
The opening of We English and Pierdom at 4RT Contemporary in Lausanne.
We English and a selection of prints from Pierdom are currently being exhibited at 4RT Contemporary in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Lausanne, Switzerland, 8 December 2012
China Life Magazine has published a portfolio of photographs from We English in their latest issue.
You can download a pdf of the spread here.
