Simon Watson is a native of Dublin, Ireland, and he has been living and working in New York for the past twenty years. Although he studied film, he experimented with other forms of visual art before concentrating on photography.
His work appears regularly in numerous editorial publications such as W Magazine, Vanity Fair Spain, Travel + Leisure and Italian Grazia Casa in addition to print advertising campaigns, including Hyatt, Master Card, Morgan Stanley and American Express.
His installation titled "A Lingering Presence" was showing last summer at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland. The installation consisted of large scale photographs he made during several visits to the Auschwitz-Birkenau site in the winter of 2006.
His last solo show in New York at Richard Anderson Fine Arts titled "Melancholia" documented the dark and quiet spaces of an abandoned house in Brooklyn and a temperate rain forest in Alaska.
He has shown his work in solo and group exhibitions in New York and Europe. His work is included in museum, public, private and corporate collections in the US and Europe.
His work appears regularly in numerous editorial publications such as W Magazine, Vanity Fair Spain, Travel + Leisure and Italian Grazia Casa in addition to print advertising campaigns, including Hyatt, Master Card, Morgan Stanley and American Express.
His installation titled "A Lingering Presence" was showing last summer at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland. The installation consisted of large scale photographs he made during several visits to the Auschwitz-Birkenau site in the winter of 2006.
His last solo show in New York at Richard Anderson Fine Arts titled "Melancholia" documented the dark and quiet spaces of an abandoned house in Brooklyn and a temperate rain forest in Alaska.
He has shown his work in solo and group exhibitions in New York and Europe. His work is included in museum, public, private and corporate collections in the US and Europe.