Simon Roberts - Sunderland exhibition

I had come across this photographer before, with some of his work being published in a few magazines.
they were the images within council meetings, which included a little motion blur due to a long shutter speed

http://simoncroberts.com/work/star-chambers/#PHOTO_2

I thought his concept for his extremely large images for the exhibition was very well thought out. As we see in the adjacent image he has captured the Sunderland supporters walking to the football ground on match day, probably along the same path that their parents and parents before them used to walk to work, the site on which the football stadium is now built.
Although for my personal taste, these are not the kind of images that would really hold my attention, knowing a little bit of the back ground to his project combined with the size and quality of his images they become quite engaging.
Again not mindless documentary images, but a well thought out and self initiated project with a lot of research carried out prior to commencing taking the photographs.