Island Life: Photographs from the Martin Parr Foundation
Simon Roberts
Born 1974, London
Roberts studied Cultural Geography at the University of Sheffield before taking up photography. His work ‘deals with our relationship to landscape and notions of identity and belonging.’ He’s made several monographs that explore English national identity through its places and particularly gatherings of people, including We English and Merrie Albion. Gerry Badger has called Roberts ‘a Tony Ray-Jones for the 21st century.’ Roberts’s images usually have a greater physical distance between him and his subjects, presenting people as figures in a landscape. He is a visiting lecturer on the MFA Photography course at IED Madrid and Honorary Associate Professor in Geography at University of Nottingham. He was an official Election Artist in 2010.
