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Steve Simon
Steve Simon has been passionate about documenting life through photography since he began taking photographs at age 12 in his home
city of Montreal.
Steve has participated as a guest lecturer and workshop leader at various photography and arts events in Canada, The United States,
and Argentina. He has had solo shows in New York, Buenos Aires, Toronto and Montreal and his work has been featured three times at the Visa Pour L’Image
Photography Festival in Perpignan, France. His work is in the permanent collections of The George Eastman House, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, The
Canadian Archives and the Comune Di Verona in Italy.
Mr. Simon has received numerous international awards including The Global Health Council
Photography Award for his work on AIDS in Africa, An Art Director’s Club of New York Award, Alfred Eisenstaedt Magazine Photography Award Nomination,
The Canadian Association of Journalists Award for work in Africa and The Canadian Press News Picture of The Year, The Canadian Newspaper Photographer of
The Year, The National Press Photographers Association Picture Of The Year.
He has four books, Heroines & Heroes: Hope, HIV and Africa (ISBN-88-8158-610-X),
The Republicans (ISBN-88-8158-561-8), on the Republican Convention in New York City published by Charta. Healing Waters (ISBN 0-88864-277-6) documenting the
healing powers of a small lake in Alberta; and Empty Sky-The Pilgrimage to Ground Zero (ISBN 2-7604-0914-7), an excerpt of which was included in Time-Life’s
book The American Spirit, forward by George W. Bush.
Recent work has been published in Mother Jones, The Digital Journalist, RobGalbraith.com, The
New York Times Magazine, Life, Colors, German Geo, Le Monde, Walrus and Harpers. He is based in New York City.
View Steve Simon's website: www.stevesimonphoto.com.
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