Simon is an award-winning editorial and documentary photographer living in the north of England and working internationally.  His work embraces a range of genres including long-form documentary, portrait, heritage and landscape. He is currently working on The North Revisited - a major long-form documentary project funded by Arts Council England.

 

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 documentary work is also 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 the only British winner of the International Art Portrait Award. In 1991 Simon was awarded a Fellowship (FRPS) of the Royal Photographic Society and, in January 2021, he was elected President and an Honorary Fellow (HonFRPS) of the Society. He is the longest serving President of the Society since the late 1800s. In February 2025 Simon was confirmed as the first ever Chartered Photographer (CPhot), the terminal qualification for professional photographers in the UK.