A Slow Tour Of Russia Training His Lens On The Locals He Met On The Way

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Simon Roberts took a slow tour of Russia, training his lens on the locals he met on the way. His travel photographs are published in a new book.

Traveling in Russian winter is difficult at the best of times, but for British photographer Simon Roberts, who was compiling his book, “Motherland,” it was that extra bit challenging.

“No one is out in winter; it’s impossible to meet people, so taking portraits was really difficult, and getting my camera to do what I wanted it to do at minus 40 degrees Celsius, was close to impossible,” Wow this guy is amazing and his pictures shoe it.

Simon say's he became fascinated by Russia while studying Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. In 2004, he and his wife traveled for a year, covering a distance of over 75,000 kilometers, to capture the vastness of the country for the book of photographs, which came out earlier this year. Choosing the photographs to go into the book was another lengthy process: Roberts took over 5,000 frames, which he then had to narrow down to 150. “Coming from an anthropological background, it was critical that I had very different types of people in there,” Roberts said. “The rest will eventually be published and, hopefully, be used as a historical archive.”

One of the Simons methods for finding a wide range of subjects was arranging home-stays as he traveled.That had to be something he'll never forget. In Omsk, he says he stayed with a family whose daughter was taking part in a ballroom dancing competition. Roberts went along, and his picture of one of the couples appears in the book: The girl with bright blue eyeshadow and red lipstick stares regally, while her partner looks slightly afraid.Here's the book because my word's just can't say enough, great job and best of luck Simon on all future endeavors http://www.motherlandbook.com/