Simon roberts photography biography examples

I chose to write as Simon Roberts because very few people can spell Ewing-Jarvie (my surname) correctly. Robert is my father's and grandfather's first name going back quite a way. I write because I love to, but I write speculative fiction and military thrillers because I also believe that it is the only way to engage society with important, complex topics. The Army taught me to write tediously detailed staff papers and my time as a university lecturer reinforced that publishing in academic journals wasn’t going to change anything – the audience was too small. . My ‘serious’ resume with a list of publications is on LinkedIn. I have an eclectic taste in reading from Nicholas Taleb’s excellent epistemological works like ‘Black Swans’ and ‘Skin in the Game’ to Dan Brown’s novels about the adventures of Robert Langdon and David Baldacci’s series about fictional detective, Amos Decker. What got me started on military speculative fiction was ‘Ghost Fleet’ by Peter Singer and Augu

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Chester Live, “Empty H&M store in Chester houses new exhibition looking at state of the British high street”, 02 June 2023, Ferguson, Angela (link)
1000 Words,”Fotografia Europea 2023 Top three festival highlights”, June 2023, Clark, Tim. (link)
FT Weekend Magazine, “Gallery”, June 2023, Lustig, Josh. (pdf)
The Guardian, “Kiss fans, Poundland and Grenfell Tower: modern Britain – in pictures”, May 2023 (link)
Art UK, “Ten artists to follow on Instagram in 2022”, January 2022, Figes, Lydia. (link)
V&A Museum, “Pandemic Objects- The Sea”, månad 2020, Kaluznick, Hana. (link)
The Critic, “Election Artists”, December 2019, Prodger, Michael. (pdf)
iO Donna Magazine, “Cartoline dalle Italia”, June 2019, Scaraffia, Giuseppe. (link)
RPS, “Best Shots”, June 2019, Padley, Gemma. (pdf)
Photograph, “Photograph is 30”, January / February 2019, Schmerler, Sarah (pdf)
Blouin ArtInfo, “In New York, Peer

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MW

What inspired you to start taking photographs, and what is the primary inspiration for you to keep working in this field?

SR

My formative years are infused with memories of my Dad photographing us kids and then setting up his old slide projector as we spent Sunday afternoon’s in the dark sitting through presentations of his (un-edited) photographs, listening to his enthusiastic running commentary. Whilst these experiences gave me an early connection with the medium, the primary inspiration that unlocked the marvel of photography was a holiday to Yosemite National Park, in California, when I was fourteen. Mid-way through the holiday I visited an exhibition of Ansel Adams’ photographs of Yosemite (some of his most iconic work) that were on permanent display in the Visitor Centre. As an impressionable youngster I was struck by the beauty and clarity of his photographs, however, more importantly, I was confused as to how these black and white, two-dimensional objects