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| Known for | Photography |
Simon Watson is an Irish portrait, interior, and travel photographer.
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Simon Watson Simon Watson | |
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| Nationality | Irish |
| Known for | Photography |
Simon Watson is an Irish portrait, interior, and travel photographer.
Simon Watson is a native of Dublin, Ireland. He was born in 1970 and studied film at Liberties College in Dublin . He left Ireland at the age of 19 and lived in New York for over 20 years before returning to Dublin in 2011. [1] He experimented with other forms of visual art including painting before concentrating on photography.
In 1998 he began work on emotional-based projects, including a series of photographs of the interiors of houses, offices, and schools in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. In 2006 Watson was granted access to areas of the Holocaust concentration camp Auschwitz, which had remained unseen since 1945. He exhibited his work at the Auschwitz museum in the following year. [2] [3]
His work has appeared in several publications including Vanity Fair, The New York Times [4] and W Magazine, [5] His advertising client list includes Hyatt, American Express, [6] and IBM. [3]
He has shown his work in solo and group exhibitions in the US and Europe, including solo shows at Richard Anderson Fine Art in New York and the Auschwitz Museum in Poland. His work is included in museum, public, private and corporate collections in the US and Europe. In June 2013 he had his first solo show of paintings at the Gallerie Rideau de Fer-Castlefranc in Lot, France.
Watson has four children. He is married to artist Christine Lebeck Watson.
His influences include Pontormo and Luc Tuymans. [7]
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