Simon Watson (photographer)

Simon Watson is a renowned portrait, interior, and travel photographer.

Biography
Simon Watson is a native of Dublin, Ireland. He was born in 1969 and studied film at Liberties College in Dublin. He left Ireland at the age of 19 and lived in New York for almost 25 years before returning to Dublin in 2013. During that period he spent some time living in Rome. He experimented with other forms of visual art including painting before concentrating on photography.

Career
Watson's work appears regularly in many publications from around the world, including The World of Interiors, global editions of Vogue, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, T Magazine and W Magazine,  His advertising client list includes IBM, American Express, and Expedia.

Apart from magazine and advertising work, he has been involved in numerous fine art 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 special access to areas of the Holocaust concentration camp, Auschwitz, which had remained unseen since 1945. He exhibited his work at the Auschwitz Museum in 2007.

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, Europe and Asia. He has had numerous exhibitions of his paintings at the Gallerie Rideau de Fer-Castlefranc in Lot, France. He has most recently shown his work at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery in Dublin. He has published three books. "The Lives of Others", Rizzoli 2020, "Portrait of a House", Dürer Editions 2021 and "Afternoon at Palazzo Altemps", Dürer Editions 2022.

Personal life
Watson has four children. He is married to artist Christine Lebeck Watson.