G R A N T S I M O N R O G E R S

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TERRA INCOGNITA

Where I live in Berlin, there is an avenue of Cherry Trees. They are about 30 years old. They are planted along part of the line of the wall. A shadow of The Wall. Every spring the Berliner Mauer is marked out in blossom. It is beautiful. The wall was demolished 30 years ago.

My flora pictures are made in parks planted over rubble mountains or Schuttberg. Volkspark Friedrichshain is one, Volksparks Hasenheide, Humboldthain have others. I make pictures of trees that are 75 years old in Soviet war memorials or were planted after all other trees were cut down for firewood. Most trees in Berlin are 75 years old. Grasses have been photographed outside Luftwaffe assembly hangars on an airfield that was to be the show piece of Germania. And then some of the time it is just the Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin, which is of course, full of refugee species.

I am passionate about the seen and unseen benefits of city greenspaces, many of which are areas of civic pride, gardens for the gardenless and museums without walls. TERRA INCOGNITA is an ongoing photographic odyssey that has absorbed my time for the last 10 years. Photography is my mark making. My thinking about my work is constantly evolving which is very exciting and feels to be full of possibilities. I have pet themes that frame my making and we are of course a sum of parts so my love of cinema, painting, literature, and food all play their part. These pictures are a record of what I look at when I go for a walk. I walk a lot throughout the year so this work evolves with the seasons.

All pictures are made using a variation of the same camera settings and an off camera flash. The variables are always the available light and my mood on the day. These pictures are virtually straight out of the camera. I love making them and feel energised by being in the moment.

I make my pictures entirely for my own pleasure.

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GALLERY PORTFOLIOS

Berlin gh36.de

Oxford www.darleandthebear.co.uk/index.asp

London www.the-lastsupper.com

Shutter Hub shutterhub.org.uk

Atelier Kirchner - with Markus Lehr mise-en-scene.photo

ONLINE INTERVIEWS

An introduction to the exhibition MISE-EN-SCENE Curated by Klára Némethy www.youtube.com/watch?v=e87dUvM5EUA

Gardens, Weeds & Words, TERRA INCOGNITA podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s02ep02-unknown-ground-with...

Photofusion London www.photofusion.org/salon14-event-photo-forum

RECENT ARTICLES

Fokus Berlin. Kühlhaus Berlin.

PIB: Atelier Kirchner www.photography-in.berlin/atelier-kirchner-mise-en-scene-...

PiB: La Camera Chiara www.photography-in.berlin/la-camera-chiara-grant-simon-ro...

Sichtbar Art, TERRA INCOGNITA by Miryam Abebe www.sichtbar.art/blog-uebersicht/terra-incognita

This is Colossal www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/01/trees-photographed-by-gran...

Zealous www.zealous.co/#!collections

Art 2 Day www.art2day.co.uk/digital.html

Almalussa almalusa.mindaffair.net/a3_Revista_DP63.php

EXHIBITIONS

Good heart: GH36 Gallery, Berlin, February - March 2021

shutter hub. 5 & 33 Gallery, Amsterdam. 2021 (date TBC)

FOKUS BERLIN Kühlhaus Berlin, Europe Month of photography 2020

KEEP YOUR MORNING SUN GH36 Contemporary Galerie. Berlin. 1 - 11 September 2020

MISE-EN-SCÈNE Fotografie von Grant Simon Rogers und Markus Lehr

ATELIER ANDRÉ KIRCHNER, Berlin. March- May 2020 www.mise-en-scene.photo

Terra Incognita La Camera Chiara 2019

Cosmos & Chaos. Berlin Art Week. Atelier Christine Kuhn 2019

No Con Art. Berlin Art Week. GH36 Gallery, Berlin 2019

Home, The Gallery at Home, Wales 2019

Everything I have Ever Learnt, Art at the Arb, Cambridge University 2019

Shutter Hub Open II, Photo Month, 5 & 33 Gallery , Amsterdam, 2018

Terra Incognita The Last Supper Gallery 2018

Real/Unreal. Bath Photography Festival. PhotoFest18. Bath 2018.

Shutter Hub Open I, Photo Month, The Truman Brewery, London 2018

Terra Incognita Haslemere Educational Museum, Surrey 2017

Photofusion London Open 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016

INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS

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TROUSERS

Seasonal. Rolled. Jaunty

LUNCH

Always