About this site
SimonGriffee.com is my personal website—a photographic concern. The homepage can be considered my notebook, where a new picture appears often, usually every day. The photographs don’t necessarily follow in chronological order. Rather, they are a reflection of my current thoughts as a photographer.
Taking photographs is a way for me to make sense of life by choosing where I stand in relation to the people and things in the world around me. It helps me to pay attention to things that would otherwise go unnoticed and lets me appreciate the moment rather than worry about the future or the past.
Some of my other loves are travel, blues guitar, vintage aeroplanes and graphic design. My design portfolio is at Hypertexthero.com. I use my design work to help me continue traveling and photographing. I would prefer to travel and photograph most of my time and have therefore started The Generous Alphabet Project. Most of my writing is now done in its journal.
Brief Bio
Simon was born in Passo Fundo in the lands of southern Brazil. He traveled extensively in his childhood, living in various parts of that land, including Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília and a forestry research station around 50km from Posse, Goiás.
Simon studied advertising while living in Bournemouth on the south coast of England. The idea of selling things, usually crap, for other people didn’t appeal to him, and after moving back to Rome he learned HTML and got a job in an internet startup. At that time he bought his own camera and started taking pictures. The company eventually closed in the dotcom crash, and Simon began doing any freelance work he could find. A few years later he joined another company, but after one year decided that the office work routine was not for him. He left the job and traveled and photographed in the United States with the money he had left.
In 2007 and 2008 Simon began thinking about photography more seriously. Soon he came across David Alan Harvey’s wonderful website and began learning how little he knew. Simon continues to travel, to work as a freelance designer, to photograph and to learn. Simon has also lived in Tunisia and in the United States. His home off the road is currently Bracciano, Italy.
Copyright
The work in this website is copyright by Simon Griffee. You may use any of the work here as long as you ask and receive my permission first and as long as an attribution to me accompanies the work. Feel free to publish my photographs on your own website provided you include a link to SimonGriffee.com. You may contact me with any questions.
Thank you for visiting my website!
Simon