Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 11/07/2025Thanks Martin Parr: “Given that Brighton must have the greatest number of photographers after London, I find it astonishing that there has never been an active photography-related centre with a gallery, library and place for photographers to meet. All the more reason to support this endeavour!” 0110
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 10/07/2025POST is a much-needed creative hub in a city where artists are being priced and forced out. We’ve secured a 3,000 sq/ft industrial unit. Now we need your help to build it —from studio walls to community kitchen. We’re offering limited-edition prints, founding memberships, portfolio reviews & more. 0122
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 01/04/2025Visualising The Brexshit Times. simoncrobertsstudio.metalabel.com/release-4rch 080
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 30/03/2025Whilst The Brexshit Times explores the way in which Brexit was reported it could equally be applied to new & controversial language generated by the rise of conservative populism in the US: in Trump’s Washington, words have become weaponised. simoncrobertsstudio.metalabel.com/release-4rch 010
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 29/03/2025On this day in 2017 Britain delivered a letter to Brussels confirming Britain would formally leave the EU. In protest of this calamitous decision, I’m releasing the last signed copies of my publication, The Brexshit Times via @metalabel.bsky.social simoncrobertsstudio.metalabel.com/release-4rch 083
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 11/03/2025On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Marking the 5th anniversary the Attenborough Centre will be screening 'An Avoidable Loss, A Failure of State'. 📅 11 March, 5–9pm (33 minutes, plays on a loop) www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/5373/... 150
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 10/03/2025For my Brighton / Sussex friends - screening of my Covid-19 film tomorrow from 5-9pm. An Avoidable Loss, A Failure of State Tuesday 11 March, 2025 Attenborough Centre for Contemporary Arts Sussex University Brighton www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/5373/... 094
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 10/02/2025WTF!!!!! More public art heading into private hands. 040
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 09/02/2025Today’s inspiration: The Oak Tree struck by Lightning or The Fortune Teller by Jan van Goyen, 1638 190
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 08/02/2025Enjoying a cup of Arabic coffee in the English countryside; Devil’s Dyke to be precise. @southdownsnp.bsky.social 1442
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 06/02/2025Join me at Photofusion London on March 8th for an intensive photobook making workshop. @photofusionuk.bsky.social An insightful one-day course dedicated to the art of creating photobooks. More details: www.photofusion.org/store/p/thep... 0266
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 04/02/2025Checking some new prints down at the lab today; always love this moment, especially when prints are at this scale. Trialing a Japanese inkjet paper for my new series ‘After London’. 0231
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 02/02/2025Thanks for the amazing response to yesterday’s seascape I posted. If you liked that, why not bookmark www.adailysea.com? A daily photograph looking out to sea from Brighton, which I began on 19 March 2020 when the Covid-19 lockdown in the UK was announced, and continued almost daily for a year. 😎 0111
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 01/02/2025I never tire of this view: English Channel from Brighton seafront. Happy Saturday all. 1393823
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 27/01/2025Respect to @theeuropeans.bsky.social for ditching Instagram. He’ll be an important figure here on #bluesky to follow, if you’re not already. 1162
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 19/01/2025Like a scene from the apocalypse, displaced Palestinians return to what’s left of their homes near Gaza City as the truce comes into force. The scale of the devastation wrought is unimaginable, and the project to rebuild is staggering. At least this is a moment of hope. Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa 1101
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 23/12/2024Morning inspiration #18 It’s always rewarding to see a large Daidō Moriyama photograph in the flesh. This one is titled ‘Artificial Underwater Flower, 1990’. Moriyama fans amongst you will spot one of his famous grid installations reflected in the back of this image. www.moriyamadaido.com/en/ 0150
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 22/12/2024Morning inspiration #17 Another one from Seville- a monumental structure made from clay, sand, hay and spices by the Columbian artist Delcy Morelos installed inside the Cartuja monastery in the grounds of the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo. 070
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 21/12/2024Morning inspiration #16 I’m working in Seville for a few days and had time to dive into the Royal Alcazar (Reales Alcázares de Sevilla) palace, which has a stunning mix of European and Islamic and architecture. Portraying how a potpourri of cultures seemingly coexisted. 080
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 19/12/2024Morning inspiration #15 I took this photograph of a Syrian family enjoying a picnic in the peaceful setting of Munich’s English Garden. It was 2016 and they had recently fled Assad’s brutal war, finding refuge in Germany. This is what immigration often looks like; not something to be feared. 0244
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 18/12/2024Morning inspiration #14 Looking at the work of my fellow APEC studio members. Here’s a recent canvas by Rupert Hartley. www.ruperthartley.com 010
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 17/12/2024Today’s inspiration #13 The Long Man of Wilmington or Wilmington Giant, a hill figure on the steep slopes of Windover Hill in East Sussex. Probably created in the 16th or 17th century AD- it is one of two major extant human hill figures in England; the other is the Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorchester. 290
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 16/12/2024Morning inspiration #12 Nothing like a dip in the sea on a winter’s morning to focus the mind for the week ahead 🥶 280
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 15/12/2024Morning inspiration #11 ANTHONY BURRILL IDEAS ARE EVERYWHERE screenprint jealousgallery.com/products/ide... 060
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 13/12/2024Morning inspiration #10: Mickey Mouse was a Scorpio, 2016–18 by Arthur Jafa, American filmmaker & artist whose work explores the Black experience. If you have the chance, do see his work in situ, it’s extraordinary, particularly his video The White Album, 2018 spruethmagers.com/artists/arth... 081
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 12/12/2024Morning inspiration #9: To help brighten-up your day, one can always rely on the dry humour of artist Glen Baxter. Currently on show at Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London. www.flowersgallery.com/artists/74-g... 092
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 11/12/2024Morning inspiration #8: Francis Bacon by Peter Gidal (16mm film) from the series Heads, 1969. The film is included in the superb exhibition ‘Francis Bacon: Human Presence’ at the National Portrait Gallery in London until 19 Jan. A must-see show. www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhi... 070
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 10/12/2024Morning inspiration #7: Source Magazine- one of best publications exploring contemporary photography. I notice they’ve got a sweet deal on subscription at the moment. Place any orders by **12 noon 16th Dec** for UK Xmas postage (copies £9.11, subscriptions £26) Follow: @sourcephoto.bsky.social 0114
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 09/12/2024Here is my homage to John Davies’ photograph from my book, We English’ (Chris Boot Publishing, 2009). Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, Nottinghamshire, June 2008 0241
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 09/12/2024Morning inspiration #7: Agecroft Power Station, Salford 1983 by John Davies collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co81... 3252
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 08/12/2024Morning inspiration #6: Umbrella scene from the film ‘Conclave’ directed by Edward Berger, 2024 Cinematographer Stéphane Fontaine says the shot was “designed to convey a sense of relentless forward movement”. 2120
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 07/12/2024Like the Kearton brothers, I also have a penchant for unusual camera positions! Most of my large-format photographs are taken from an elevated perspective, if not from the roof of my motorhome, then a ladder of sorts. Here are a few examples 😍 5171
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 07/12/2024Morning inspiration: Richard & Cherry Kearton, working in the 1890s: possibly the world’s first professional wildlife photographers. They had some intriguing methods for getting the right viewpoint and realised that capturing nature depended on invention! amp.theguardian.com/books/2016/s... 0223
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 06/12/2024Morning inspiration: ‘VERSAILLES, 1985’ by Luigi Ghirri Viaggi: Photographs 1970–1991 is a major exhibition dedicated to the Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri running at MASI Lugano, Switzerland, until 26 January 2025 0202
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 05/12/2024Great to learn that a reprint of ‘Evidence’ by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel is being published in January 2025. Its considered one of the most important #photobooks to have been made. Good article about the work here: www.anothermag.com/art-photogra... 2154
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 05/12/2024Might I presume my most recent follower on @bsky.app is a bot!? 110
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 05/12/2024Morning inspiration: ‘Jeff Wall, The Thinker (1986)’ currently on show at White Cube, London @whitecube-official.bsky.social I highly recommend seeing the show; a retrospective of Wall’s 30 year career. & listen to interview with @benlukeart.bsky.social here: open.spotify.com/episode/4KY5... 0223
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 04/12/2024On stage after Cornelia Parker; feeling decidedly nervous about following her lead, inspiring a room full of students interested in studying the arts. 060
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 04/12/2024Morning inspiration: Alter Altar by Jasleen Kaur, winner of last night’s Turner Prize. And big up to Kaur. In her acceptance speech she called for a ceasefire in the Middle East and for the Tate to divest from organisations complicit in the Israeli regime. amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign... 0163
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 03/12/2024Morning inspiration: Georges Seurat, 'Bathers at Asnières', 1884 National Gallery, London 070
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 02/12/2024I’ve just released my latest studio newsletter, which includes a few festive offers (it is 1 December!)🎅🏻🎁 Why not take a peek: simoncroberts.beehiiv.com/p/the-robert... You can sign-up to future releases with news on shows, print drops, BTS and giveaways here: simoncroberts.beehiiv.com/subscribe 042
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 01/12/2024More depressing stats on the state of the arts & culture in the UK 2146
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 30/11/2024Palestinian youth from East Jerusalem, Kidron Valley, Jerusalem, 2015 0130
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 30/11/2024I can’t stop thinking about this film. Made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective it documents the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, whilst following unlikely alliance between Palestinian activist Basel & Israeli journalist Yuval. m.imdb.com/title/tt3095... 1101