Simon Larbalestier

Four decades of photographic practice. The work returns to the same sites and images, and is never completed — photography is my response to that, my modality of being. PhD — a topology of dwelling.

The archive runs from the early 1980s to the present. It has been digitised from the original negatives and transparencies — scanned on Hasselblad Flextight scanners, with silver gelatin fibre prints and Polaroid work rephotographed on digital medium-format cameras. The digitised versions are not copies of the originals — they have become different versions, using specific imaging software.

Since 2009 my practice has slowly evolved as I adapted to digital capture and now includes full frame and medium format, alongside traditional 6×7cm and 6×12cm film.

The work includes album covers made for 4AD — Pixies, Red House Painters and Heidi Berry. Archival chromogenic C-type prints are made from these high resolution files by a specialist London lab — exposed onto Fuji photographic colour paper and processed in traditional C-41 chemistry, a true photographic process entirely different from inkjet. From £750 GBP for a 10×8” print + tracked shipping — signed, titled, and dated on the verso, with its unique certificate of authenticity. Available by private enquiry.

A new website is in development. Instagram is currently my only public platform.
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