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English from Brighton, born in 1974, Simon Roberts has certainly visited Rome over and over again during his care-
er as a photographer, also a guest of the capital’s international photography festival. He must have also lived it so
deeply that he has immortalized atmospheres and moments of emotions or feelings shared by those who, in love or
hate, live the city in its fully strident contrasts. Because Rome is Rome, a postcard city of those that the artists at the
time of the Grand Tour in the peninsula, splashed in their notebooks. But to the postcards of the most different eras
and places of the
Roman world Ro-
berts superimpo-
ses his original
manner with his
c o n t e m p o r a r y
snapshots, sha-
ping images that
become juxtapo-
sed between the
ancient and mo-
dern history of
Rome. After all,
as Marcel Proust
pointed out: “The
world was not
created once,
but every time
an original artist
born”.

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