Instructors

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. He 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 at The Leica Gallery, 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. For four years, he was Professor/Coordinator of the Loyalist College Photojournalism Program, Canada’s elite program for documentary work and visual journalism. He has seen four of his personal projects published as books, Heroines & Heroes: Hope, HIV and Africa (ISBN-88-8158-610-X) 2006, The Republicans (ISBN-88-8158-561-8) 2006, on the Republican Convention in New York City published by Charta. Healing Waters (ISBN 0-88864-277-6) 1995, documenting the healing powers of a small lake in Alberta; and Empty Sky-The Pilgrimage to Ground Zero (ISBN 2-7604-0914-7) 2002, an excerpt of which was included in Time-Life’s book The American Spirit, forward by George W. Bush.

Mr. Simon has received numerous international awards including: Art Director’s Club of New York Award, 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, The Global Health Council Photography Award for his work on AIDS in Africa, Alfred Eisenstaedt Magazine Photography Award Nomination, PX3 2008. In June 2008, he becomes one of four contributing photographers for The Digital Journalist, along with Peter and David Turnley and James Whitow Delano. Two current projects are represented with the Blue Earth Foundation (blueearth.org).

He is contributing host to This Week In Photography (TWIP) Podcast, iTunes-50,000 Downloads weekly, sponsored by Apple, Nikon and has two books forthcoming in 2010: The Nikon Dream System (Lark); The Passionate Eye, (Peachpit)

Mr. Simon is on the faculty of The International Center of Photography and the School of Visual Arts, both in New York and does workshops around the world. His work has been published in Mother Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Life, Colors, German Geo, Le Monde, Walrus and Harpers.