Simon Larbalestier Photography

Simon Larbalestier is a photographer who has been based in Bangkok, Thailand since 2001. He is noted for his collaborative work with Vaughan Oliver and the design studios 23 Envelope and v23 providing the photography used on album artwork for bands such as Pixies, Red House Painters, Heidi Berry and other artists on the 4AD label.

Much of the pair’s collaborative work features in the book Vaughan Oliver: Visceral Pleasures. His work includes images on many magazine covers for New Scientist and book covers for publishers Random House and Secker & Warburg featuring his distinctive collage style that he first developed at college. Larbalestier has had many solo and group exhibitions in Britain, Europe, Scandinavia and USA. His work during the 1990s and 2000s has moved through several landscape series in Italy, USA and Australia to several recent documentary series in Thailand, Cambodia and other areas of South East Asia. His recent documentary series shot in Angkor Wat and Siem Reap deals strongly with the human condition through portraits and atmospheric images of vacant rooms and landscapes and details of possessions revealing how people live.In 2009 Larbalestier and Oliver collaborated again on a limited edition box set re-issue of Pixies recordings, Minotaur, that included a 72 page book of new photography and graphics. In April 2010, Snap Galleries, Piccadilly, London housed a major retrospective of Larbalestier’s Pixies archive dating from 1986-2009. Follow at