Simon Bray is an artist, photographer and writer based in Hampshire, UK.
To ask about working together: simonj.bray@gmail.com 07584620249
Commissions - A bespoke website for editorial and commercial photographic work.
Photography Workshops - Information about my teaching, workshops and socially engaged photography projects with prisoners, youth groups, school children and the recently bereaved.
Loved&Lost - A project inviting participants to explore their experience of loss through restaging a family photography, as featured by BBC TV and The Guardian.
‘Dear Kairos,’ - Latest book published with Skinnerboox. Winner of the FE+SK Book Award 2023. Shortlisted for the Arles Les Rencontres De La Photographie 2023 Book Award.
Taking Time - A project that invited writers to consider the concept of time throughout 2021 featuring Robert Macfarlane, Olivia Laing, John Berger, Dr. Martin Shaw, Erland Cooper, Oliver Burkeman, Richard Fisher, Anne Beate Hovind, Veronica O’Keane, Robert Poynton, Seth Godin, Carl Honore and Alistair Humphreys.
Selected Clients & Publications
Guardian Weekend - Washington Post - V&A - Audible - Telegraph Magazine - NHS - The Prince’s Trust - Lancashire Wildlife Trust - Manchester International Festival - BBC Radio 3 - Stella - The Telegraph - Brewdog - Columbia Records - The Wire - National Geographic Traveller - Waitrose Magazine - Open Eye Gallery - John Hansard Gallery - Rakesprogress - Lodestars Anthology - Pasture - Millican - Urban Splash - The Wilderness - The Office of Craig Oldham
Selected Exhibitions
The Southbank Centre - The Whitworth - Weston Park Museum Sheffield - Manchester International Festival - Open Eye Gallery - Manchester Cathedral - Oriel Colwyn - Peckham Levels - HOME - Kendal Mountain Festival at Brewery Arts - Brighton Photo Festival
Selected Press
The Guardian - BBC Breakfast - The One Show - BBC In Pictures - British Journal of Photography - Creative Boom - Then There Was Us - Outdoor Photography - Loupe - Black&White Photography - American Suburb X
I am currently a lecturer in Photojournalism at Bournemouth University.
Occasionally I write and release instrumental music.
I have previously worked as a creative producer with Martin Parr, Manchester Art Gallery & Manchester International Festival.
A selection of images are available to license from Millennium Images.
Exhibitions, Talks & Workshops
Falmouth University - BA Photography Online - Sept 2024
Love Thy Neighbour - United Church Winchester - Sept 2024
Loved&Lost - Waterlooville Library, Hampshire - April 2024
Loved&Lost - New Milton Library, Hampshire - Feb 2024
Loved&Lost - Chandler’s Ford Library, Hampshire - Jan 2024
Loved&Lost - Basingstoke Library, Hampshire - Dec 2023
Loved&Lost - Stubbington Library, Hampshire - Oct 2023
Dear Kairos - IFAC Gallery, Athens - 20th May 2023
Loved&Lost - The Nutshell, Winchester - 6th May - 21st July 2023
Look Photo Biennial - Spinners Mill - Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
East Manchester Youth Group Photography - Manchester Central Library - Feb 2023
East Manchester Youth Group Photography - The Whitworth - May - Nov 2022
Restricted Views, Creative Outlooks (Prison Photography Workshops) - HMP Thorn Cross - March 2022 - December 2022
Restricted Views, Creative Outlooks (Prison Photography Workshops) - Open Eye Gallery - Dec 2021
MISC, Athens - Nearest Truth Workshop - Nov 2021
Falmouth University - BA Design - Talk - Nov 2021
Stockport College - BA Photography - Talk - Feb 2021
University of Cumbria - BA Photography - Talk - Feb 2021
Good Grief Festival - Talk - October 2020
Loved&Lost - Weston Park Museum. Sheffield - 14th December 2019 - 19th April 2020
Duality at Manchester Open - HOME, Manchester - 18th Jan 2020 - 29th March 2020
Weston Park Museum. Sheffield - Talk - 27th February 2019
Death Writes Symposium, Glasgow University - Workshops- January 2020
Creative Mornings Sheffield - Weston Park Museum, Sheffield - Talk - November 2019
Redeye Hothouse - Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool - Talk - November 2019
Poetry & Photography with Perins School - Winchester Discovery Centre - October 2019
Northern Eye International Photography Festival - October 2019
PechaKucha Colwyn Bay - Talk - October 2019
Flow Photo - Gloucester Waterways Museum June - July 2019
Flow Photo - National Waterways Museum Ellesmere Port, Liverpool March - May 2019
Loved&Lost - Manchester Cathedral - March - April 2019
Manchester Art Gallery - Talk - Producing Martin Parr’s ‘Return to Manchester’ - March 2019
Portrait Salon 2018 - Peckham Levels - November 2018
Duality - The Sharp Project, Manchester - May - October 2018
PechaKucha Manchester - Talk - July 2018
Loved&Lost - Oriel Colwyn, Colwyn Bay - July 2018
Signs of Spring - Photoeast, Suffolk - May 2018
Festival of Voice - Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff - June 2018
Changing Lives: 200 Years of People and Protest in Sheffield - Museum Sheffield - Feb - June 2018
Falmouth University - MA Photography - Talk - March 2018
Free For Arts Festival - Plant NOMA - 'Entity' Film & Stills - March 2018
Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal - Kendal Mountain Festival - 'The Edges Of These Isles' - November 2017 - January 2018
Kendal Mountain Festival - The Edges Of These Isles' with Tom Musgrove - 17th November 2017
Manchester International Festival, Centre For Chinese Contemporary Art - 'One of Two Stories, or Both' with Samson Young - July-October 2017
Hull City of Culture 2017 - Hull International Photography Festival - 'Duality' with Strand Collective - October 2017
Longitude Gallery, Clitheroe - 'The Edges Of These Isles' - June 2017
Independent Photo Festival Prize - House of Vans, London - May 2017
The Southbank Centre, London - 'Loved&Lost' - March 2017
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool - 'The Edges Of These Isles' - November 2016
No Walls Gallery, Brighton Photo Fringe - 'Duality' - October 2016
The Whitworth, Manchester - 'The Edges Of These Isles' - Exhibition, Film Screening & Talk - September 2016
Publications
Searching Beneath The Silence - 2024
Siblings - 2021
Signs of Spring - 2018
30th December - 2017
The Limited Findings of a Westerner's Short Stay in Rajasthan - (Co-Published with Let's Explore) - 2017
The Edges of These Isles - 2016
Second Skin - with Strand Collective - 2016
Grants & Awards
Dear Kairos - Shortlisted for the Arles Les Rencontres De La Photographie 2023 Book Award
Dear Kairos - FE+SK Book Award 2023
Best Exhibition 2019 - ‘Return to Manchester’ by Martin Parr at Manchester Art Gallery (Creative Producer)
Manchester International Festival - Jerwood Fellowship 2017
Arts Council - Grants for the Arts - The Edges Of These Isles - 2016
Arts Council - Grants for the Arts - Second Skin with Strand Collective - 2016
Magnum/IdeasTap - Professional Practice Bursary - 2012
Book Design
Ewa Zebrowski - ‘I Never Knew Cy Twombly’
David Myers - ‘Almost Heroic’
Jack Garland - ‘waco’
Nearest Truth - ‘Group K’
Press
Dear Kairos
Siblings
Black&White Photography
Ambient 4 : On Land
Martin Parr ‘Return to Manchester’ - Creative Producer
Loved&Lost Project
BBC One Show - National TV feature
The Guardian - Grief in the time of Coronavirus - Commission
The Guardian - Feature in 'Family' Section
BBC Stories - Mini Documentary
30th December
The Limited Findings of a Westerner's Short Stay in Rajasthan
The Edges of These Isles
Outdoor Photography Magazine- In Conversation With…
Outdoor Photography Magazine - In The Spotlight Feature
Outdoor Photography Magazine - Book of the Month
YHA Magazine
Signs of Spring
Duality
Outdoor Photography Magazine - In Conversation With… Simon Bray