Simon Watson (photographer)
Simon Watson is an Irish portrait, interior, and travel photographer.
Biography
Simon Watson was born in Booterstown, in Dublin, Ireland, but he has been living and working in Brooklyn Heights, New York for the past few decades. He first started taking photographs after his father gave him a 35mm Nikon camera as a teenager. He attended Liberties Vocational School to study film for a brief time and then went to New York with a friend and found work with photographers. He began working for photographer Mike Donnelly, and then in 1992, Simon began photographing on his own.
In 1998 he was inspired by a “remembrance of things past.” He began work on more emotional based projects, including a series of photographs of the interiors of houses, offices, and schools in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. After much conflict, Watson was granted access to areas of the Holocaust concentration camp Auschwitz, which had remained unseen since 1948.
Career
His editorial client list includes Vanity Fair Spain, Travel + Leisure, Italian Grazia Casa, Istanbul House & Garden, Dazed & Confused, New York Magazine, and W Magazine, among others.
His advertising client list includes Hyatt, Master Card, Morgan Stanley, American Express, and IBM.