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The Election Project newspaper
Publisher: Simon Roberts/ October 2010Essay: Greg Hobson, Sean O’Hagan and Peter WilbyBinding: NewspaperExtent: 16 pagesTrim: 16.5 x11.4” / 420 x 290 mmPhotographs: 25 ColourDesign: Fuel / www.fuel-design.comSimon Roberts was commissioned as the official election artist by the UK Parliament in 2010 to provide an historic visual record of the General Election. Alongside the final exhibition he published a newspaper containing all 25 artworks, a selection of images submitted by the public and three commissioned essays. -
We English book
Publisher: Chris Boot, October 2009Essay: Stephen DanielsBinding: HardbackISBN: 978-1-905712-14-4Extent: 112 pagesTrim size: 14.1 x 11.4” / 360 x 290 mmPhotographs: 56 ColourDesign: Fuel / www.fuel-design.comSimon Roberts travelled across England in a motorhome between August 2007 and September 2008, for this portfolio of large-format tableaux photographs of the English at leisure. Roberts’ national survey was informed by the photography of his predecessors and by the romantic tradition of English landscape painting. This is Roberts' second book and was recently included in Martin Parr’s 30 most influential photobooks of the last decade. -
We English Special Edition book
Edition: 100 (+ 10 APs)Print: 14 x 11″ C-TypePrint Title: Bolton Abbey, Skipton, North YorkshireA limited edition boxset of We English in an edition of 100 (+ 10 APs). This special edition includes a unique 11 x 14" C-type edition print, a signed book and a copy of a local daily newspaper collected on Simon's journey around England, all housed in a grey embossed cloth bound clamshell box.
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Motherland book
Publisher: Chris Boot, May 2007Essay: Rosamund BartlettBinding: HardbackISBN: 978-1-905712-03-8Extent: 192 pagesTrim size: 9.5 x 7.5″ / 240 x 192 mmPhotographs: 152 ColourDesign: Fuel / www.fuel-design.comSimon Roberts travelled across Russia between July 2004 and August 2005, making pictures in over 200 locations and creating one of the most extensive, comprehensive photographic accounts of this vast country by a Westerner. His images are not clichéd representations of a Russia ground down by poverty and despair; rather, he presents a beautiful and awe-inspiring land, with a dignified people empowered by a growing optimism and a deeply rooted sense of national esteem. -
THIS LAND Limited Edition PRINT
Title: Ground Bomb, Winter Blast, ArizonaPrint Size: 11 x 14″Paper: Fuji Crystal Archive PaperEdition: Limited to 15Date: 2003A limited edition signed print from Simon's 'This Land is Your Land' series
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