Writing in today’s The Guardian, Sean O’Hagan selects his favourite photography books of the year, which include We English.

He writes: “Closer to home, the English were the subjects of two intriguing books: Simon Roberts’s We English (Chris Boot, £40) and Chris Steele-Perkins’s England, My England (Nothumbria Press, £30). Roberts’ book is a kind of gentle celebration, its images captured on a large-format 5×4-inch camera and owing as much to the English landscape painting tradition as any photographic precedent. It’s a grower. Steele-Perkins, a Magnum veteran, opts for a more sweeping documentary approach that shows the English at work and at play over the last four decades. By turns gritty and evocative, it is a book one imagines that Orwell would have liked very much.”

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