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May 6, 2010
I've finished selecting the photos for the first draft of my Tasmanian book--tentatively entitled Image-Fragments of Tasmania: Photographs of Tasmania 2010--- and taken them to AtkinsTechnicolour for colour correcting. The workshop to design the book is on Saturday morning and I'm still writing still the text. The book is printed through Picpress utilizing their software.
In the meantime I've been keeping a lookout for photographers who are much further down this path in the tradition of the road trip in photography than me. One is Simon Roberts who published a collection of photographs taken over the course of a year traveling throughout Russia entitled Motherland.
His second project is We English, the result of travel the country in a motorhome photographing and researching subjects and locations.
Simon Roberts, Skegness Beach, Lincolnshire, 12th August 2007
The photographs taken with an Ebony 45S camera are of the English people at play, relaxing and revelling and their attachment to England. So it is about belong and identity. Are the English having an identity crisis in contrast to the resurgence of Scottish or Welsh identity and nationality? What does it mean to be English – not British, but specifically English? Should it matter?
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