Simon Roberts (1970, British)

Simon Roberts (b.1974) is a British photographer whose work deals with our relationship to landscape and notions of identity and belonging. He has published and exhibited widely and his photographs reside in major public and private collections, including the George Eastman House, Deutsche Börse Art Collection and V&A Collection. In 2010 he was commissioned as the official British Election Artist by the House of Commons Works of Art Committee to produce a record of the General Election on behalf of the UK Parliamentary Art Collection. He has published four critically acclaimed monographs, Motherland (Chris Boot, 2007), We English (Chris Boot, 2009) – voted as one of the best photography books of the past decade – Pierdom (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2013) and most recently Merrie Albion (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2017). In Switzerland, Roberts presented his The Last Moment series during the 2016 edition of the Vevey Images Festival, and in 2017 was commissioned by Fotostiftung in Winterthur and the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne to create a new body of work, Sight Sacralization – (Re)framing Switzerland.