From Brighton, England now living in Kansas City.

My work can be best viewed as 'sets' using the 'slideshows'.

I arrived in America when the recession was beginning to bite. It was an election year and both discontent and a need for change was in the air. Gas prices were rising steeply, the housing market was in crisis, business's were on the brink of closing and the future for many people was looking uncertain.

These images were made on several road trips I made during this time (and still making) and could be described as a collection of psychic co-ordinate points that I have plotted between the imagined America that I brought with me from England and the real America which I found on my arrival in 08.

They are the search for a kind of personal orientation between the dream or idea of a place and my actual experience of it in reality. Half truth and half fiction, these photographs are a ‘mental geography’ filled with personal symbolism and tangled with influences I often did not know were there until I started photographing them.

It is a journey which explores the destination.

I am happy for people to blog my images, but PLEASE let me know first, thank you.

Below is a list of the most notable places where my work has been featured. Please check out my flickr group and regularly updated blog 'Altered States of Agoraphobia' Thanks for visiting.

Altered States of Agoraphobia
Get The Picture (Agency/Collective)
La Pura Vida (Feature)
'Amerikana' Interview
Urbanautica feature (Overland Park)
La Pura Vida (June Show)
La Pura Vida (Populated by Vegetation #3)
Truth Magazine (III) Utah Road Trip
Truth Magazine (IV) 'Cage' series
Truth Magazine (V) 'Victim' series
'Modismo' Blurb Book
Aamora (Los Alamos, NM.)
Aamora (Damaged Goods)
Exhibition Review (Running on Empty)
JPG Magazine Issue 20 (White House)
JPG Magazine Issue 23 (Nostalgia theme)
artishock 'Artist of the week' (Chile)
GTP Book feature at La Pura Vida
ASA group feature at La Pura Vida
Altered States of Agoraphobia (II) Flickr group blog
AUBADE issue 1
AUBADE issue 2
AUBADE issue 3
AUBADE issue 4
AUBADE issue 5
AUBADE issue 7
Netherworld Magazine feature (States of Grace pt1)
Netherworld Magazine feature (States of Grace Pt2)
Interview with Head-On Photo Festival
Fragments & Collisions (LPV Group Show)
La Pura Vida Magazine #1
Magnum's Postcards From America Blog
Magnum's Postcards from America Blog (II)
Harvey Benge's Blog
Dirty Blog (Feature)
Battle At 3AM blog (Interview)
Landscape Stories. Issue 4 (Traces)
Pistol & Fur (Book)
Pistol & Fur (interview)
Remains to be Seen (Book)
Remains to be Seen Book (La Pura Vida feature)
Remains to be Seen (book review at trendhunter)
Fototazo: f100
Venustreet (colour) Blurb Book
FAQMAGAZINE (issue 07)
HOLYGHOST ZINE
CZE Magazine 9 (American Flag Issue)
Fototazo: The Image (Was Here series)
ONE-GIANT-ARM
Professional-Photography-Blog
Interview with John Calavera
ASA group feature at La Pura Vida #7
VIEW Magazine #5 (PDF)

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  • Best Expat Flickr Contact Photobook 2012 by Fabricator of Useless Articles
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  • Aubade Magazine Issue 8 by Christopher C Turner
  • * (Kossoff) by Llorenç Rosanes
  • Aubade Magazine - Issue 7 by Christopher C Turner
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  • Clackamas, OR by Jim Hart (*)
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  • Proof pages (Remains to be Seen book) by Simon Kossoff
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Testimonials (3)

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    steven-brooks says:

    "I spent three hours riveted to my chair the day I discovered Simon’s work on another website. I must have studied every image. Twice. His remarkable photos pay homage to the great photographers of our time while forging a unique voice of his own, full of humor and heart. Even his most brazenly sarcastic and ironic photos have an underlying affection for the subject matter. Oh yeah, the compositions are great too.

    Though his photos are technically strong, he doesn't seem to be weighed down by equipment or hung up on technical data. His work is all about subject matter, composition and having something to say. I’ve never met the man but, judging by his photos, conversations with him would likely be lively and insightful.

    Cheers, my friend, and keep that camera pointed at the stuff we overlook."

    29th July, 2010

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    chuckp says:

    "I write testimonials when the I reach the "Favoriting Threshold of Futility" - what's the point of a putting a star on something when more than half the images seem to need one? This guy consistently takes what would be boring, stereotyped images in other hands and just whacks them clean out of the park."

    12th May, 2010

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    foddokross says:

    "Your stream is so on point it's out of reach. Clever, carefully composed and damn funny. I have to think of Stephen Shore with Martin Parrs sense of humour.

    Waiting for more miracles to come.

    Sincerely foddokross"

    13th February, 2009

Name:
Simon Kossoff
Joined:
November 2008
Hometown:
Brighton, England
Currently:
Overland Park, KS, USA
I am:
Male and Taken
Occupation:
EMT
Website:
Get The Picture (photo collective)