Simon Roberts is a well travelled British photographer and is noted for his work travelling to many locations across Russia and has one several awards for his published work.Much of his images have been taken using a large format camera and interestingly he took a series of images using an old plate camera fixed on the top of a motor home he travelled in to enable a higher perspective for his images,
Simon's work can be found here:
An interesting set of images he has taken are those from the Philippines typhoon in 2014. He has combined portrait images of affected people and mixed these in with people dealing with the devastation from the typhoon. This approach is very clever as the portraits I felt brought me closer to the fact these are people like you and me, rather than distant figures. My research suggested that Typhoon Haiyan killed more than 7,300 people and that 1.2 million people were evacuated.
When death tolls are announced there is I think a number that once reached and surpassed make it difficult for the human mind to process. The images of people up closer to the lens in contrast to some of the wide angle images me allowed me to better feel the human cost and impact to their lives. He also mixed a few locations taking images at the same location separated by 9 months allowing the viewer to see the change
Another interesting set was:
Here he captured almost landscape images of people pursuing leisure activities.
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