Biography
Simon Crofts lived in Moscow during the transformations of the 90s and for much of the noughties in Poland. He now lives back in his native Scotland and regularly works for editorial clients such as the Telegraph Magazine, Der Spiegel, The Fader, and the Financial Times.Portfolio
Expectations
Expectations is a collection of visual poems about Ukraine that draw on literature, music, and history.
Gathered around the themes of Fortune, Utopia, Fear and Memory, it places the images among recollections and
interviews from the author's experiences in Ukraine and Russia that developed over two decades.
In Chekhov's short story "Fortune", two shepherds discuss the nature of human happiness. They imagine
finding a crock of Scythian gold buried beneath one of the burial mounds that poke out of the flat southern
Ukrainian steppe. For the shepherds, the idea of good fortune, the process of dreaming about a hypothetical
treasure and what they might do with it, is a more
real happiness than the remote prospect of actually finding it.
They are not alone. Ukraine is a land of perpetually unfulfilled hopes, the child of a failed utopian dream.
And now it has fallen into a tug of war between closer integration with the rest of the world on the one
hand versus humiliation at economic collapse and loss of an empire stoked by an understandable pride in the
sacrifices of the past.
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Adopted Welsh in Re-Vue
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A Woman's Work Legacy Publication
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Photobook: Tomorrow is Sunday
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Inside The Muse of the Greenhouse
The Eye Festival 2020
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Maria Kapajeva Video Premiere - The Group Photo.2017
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Call for Entries: PH21 Photography Gallery
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Palm* Photo Prize 2020
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Open Call: Photon Gallery
Open Call: Athens Photo Festival 2020
Maria Kapajeva: Dream is Wonderful, Yet Unclear Exhibition
Paris Photo 2020
FotoFestiwal 2020
Tessa Bunney: Otherwise Unseen Exhibition
Aesthetica Art Prize 2020
Miriam O' Connor: Tomorrow is Sunday Exhibition
A Woman's Work: Symposium
A Woman's Work: Selected Artists
Zeiss Photography Award 2020
Sony World Photography Award 2020