Simon Hill HonFRPS is an award-winning photographer living in the north of England and working internationally. His work embraces a broad range of genres including editorial, documentary, portrait, event,  heritage and landscape.

 

Simon recently completed The North Revisited - a major documentary project funded by Arts Council England. He is currently working on Kolkata: City of Joy - a project inspired by the acclaimed 1985 book of the same name by Dominique Lapierre; and separate collaborations with Joe Cornish HonFRPS and Ruth Emily Hanson ARPS.

 

With over 300 publication credits - including National Geographic Magazine, The Observer Magazine and The Sunday Times Magazine - Simon has had work exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery (where his work is held in the National Collection), the National Media Museum, the Imperial War Museum, Photo North Festival, the Council of Europe, UNESCO and UNICEF. Simon's portrait work is held in the RPS New Collection and his documentary work is held in the collection of the Martin Parr Foundation.

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Simon is a previous winner of Kodak Professional Photographer of the Year, BIPP Professional Photographer of the Year, and is the only British winner of the International Art Portrait Award. In 1991 he was awarded Fellowship (FRPS) of the Royal Photographic Society and, in January 2021, was elected President and an Honorary Fellow (HonFRPS). Simon is the longest serving President of the Society since the late 1800s. 

 

In February 2025 Simon became the first photographer to be awarded the designation of Chartered Photographer (CPhot), the terminal qualification for professional photographers in the UK.