Simon Bray is a photographer, writer and designer based in Hampshire, UK.
To ask about working together: simonj.bray@gmail.com 07584620249
Project Sites
‘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.
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.
Photography Workshops - Socially engaged photography projects with prisoners, youth groups, school children and the recently bereaved.
Commissions - A selection of previous editorial and commercial photographic commissions.
Taking Time - A project that invited writers to consider the concept of time throughout 2021.
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
Occasionally I write and release instrumental music and write reviews for American Suburb X.
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
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 - 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
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
Press
Outdoor Photography Magazine- In Conversation With…
Outdoor Photography Magazine - In The Spotlight Feature
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 - Book of the Month
YHA Magazine
Signs of Spring
Duality
Outdoor Photography Magazine - In Conversation With… Simon Bray