Title: This is a sign
Photographer(s): Simon Roberts
Writer(s): Simon Roberts
Designer(s): FUEL
Publisher(s): Self Publishing, London, England
Year: 2012
Print run: 2000
Language(s): English
Pages: 32
Size: 29 x 42 cm
Binding: Journal
Edition:
Print:
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: England,2007-2012
ISBN:
Simon Roberts has spent a long period looking at modes of representing the effects of Britain's changing economic fortunes and the impact of an era of enforced austerity on individuals and upon society as a whole.
The inside cover reproduce extracts from the Credit Crunch Lexicon, a text-based work drawing upon the diversity of economic terminology and political rhetoric that has become part of the language of our 'era of austerity'
Over 2008-2012 Simon Robert has been looking at modes of representing the effects of Britain's changing economic fortunes and the impact of an era of enforced austerity on individuals and upon society as a whole. Hi approach has been multi-disciplinary, using photographs, image, and text in an attempt to find ways of interrogating our new predicament and the shifting perception of the country's economic and political landscape.
The work explores the economic, political and social effects of the UK recession.
Published on newspaper print it includes a series of landscapes photographs, digital collages and an extract of his ‘Credit Crunch Lexicon’.
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