we english . . . . a week in the life

whats the jackanory ? – we english . . . . a week in the life:

If you haven’t been following Simon Roberts (he of Motherland fame) blog for his latest book project ‘We English‘, shame on you. Simon has spent over a year traveling around England in a motorhome, documenting its landscape on a large format 5×4 camera. Informed by the photography of his predecessors and by the romantic tradition of English landscape painting, he depicts the English at leisure within pastoral landscapes. His photographs explore the notion that nationhood – that what it means to be English – is to be found on the surface of contemporary life, encapsulated by banal everyday rituals and activities.