Simon Griffee

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Windward, Photographs by Simon Griffee is written in yellow on the bottom-left of the cover, which is a closeup of a black and white photograph of clouds.

Windward

Windward, my first photography book, is a poem for the world we inhabit. Written using light, it contains candid black and white photographs of life I have found on Earth between 2001 and 2021.

Available worldwide, generally printed locally near you via the Blurb Global Print Network.

57 photographs in 114 pages.
ISBN: 978-1-957503-01-1
LCCN: ‍2022900680

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Tree, car, blurred person walking.
Trastevere, Rome, 2009
Jumping pedestrian, car, snow, phone, puddle.
Near Times Square, New York City, 2015
Boy, girl, balloon.
Piazza Venezia, Rome, 2014
Clouds, sky.
Over Mahicantuck, New York City, 2017
Bay, hills, clouds, city, airplane, window.
Kariîó Oka, Rio de Janeiro, 2001
Women, hands, anger, olive branch.
Palm Sunday, Rome, 2012
Point, finger, man, hat, tie, serious.
By Macy’s, New York City, 2015
Girls, expression, blur, flash, street, hands, nails.
Avenue of the Americas, New York City, 2017
Landscape, rock, sky, scream.
Diné Lands, Navajo Nation, Arizona, 2005
Boy, blur, painting, ceiling, up.
Capella Sistina, Rome, 2012
Neutron star, new york city, manhattan, classroom, teaaching, school, space.
Pupin Hall, New York City, 2015
Girl, hair, distance.
5th Avenue, New York City, 2016
Statue, face, eyes, liberty.
8th Avenue, New York City, 2015
Helicopter, military, war, woman, child, night.
Near Trajan’s Column, Rome, 2011
Girl, eyes, mouth, hand, mask.
Via del Corso, Rome, 2021
Canyon, hill, mountain, landscape.
Ongtupqa, Grand Canyon, Navajo Nation, Arizona, 2005
Colosseum, young man, hat, helmet, birds, clouds, eyes, distance.
Amphitheatrum Flavium, Rome, 2012
Waves, boat, sea, clouds, sky.
Tyrrhenian Sea, Near Isola del Giglio, 2013
People, girl, hair, umbrella, landscape, town, tower, distance.
Alhambra, Granada, 2011
Young man, walk, Eiffel Tower, park, clouds, grass, fence.
Champ de Mars, Paris, 2013
Girl, dance, lights, night.
Waldorf Astoria, New York City, 2015
Man, Empire State Building, subway, step, sky.
West 34th Street, New York City, 2015
Woman, hair, jacket, jeans, wind.
42nd Street, New York City, 2015
Young woman, steam, glasses, sky, water tower.
Union Square Park, New York City, 2015
Landscape, night, stars, sky, clouds, rocks.
High Desert, Joshua Tree, California, 2007
Nuns, blur, standing, robes, faces.
Via Paganica, Rome, 2013
Boy, women, church, hole, head.
Parvis Notre-Dame, Paris, 2013
Hug, love, friendship, light, sun, van, man, woman, candid.
Near New York Public Library, New York City, 2015
Young woman, city, cityscape, high, view, railing, distance, hair.
Vatican Cupola, Rome, 2012
Woman, covered, fish, merchants, light, shadow.
Fes el Bali, 2014
Hat, wires, street, back.
Sài Gòn, 2010
Fish, fish school, heart, underwater.
Mar Tirreno, 2010
Pocket computer, smartphone, iphone, young man, face, astonishment, glass, container.
iPhone Introduction at Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, 2007
Distance, horizon, landscape, city, trees, branches, cemetery, fog, tower, cranes, horses, hills.
Ohlone, San Francisco Bay Area, 2005
Leaves, flash, heart, plants, wind.
Bryant Park, New York City, 2015
Young woman, old man, daughter, fater, ribbon, paper, hand, eyes, hofstadter, self, consciousness
Douglas and Monica, New York City, 2019
Landscape, flying, flight, Manhattan, river, height, aerial.
Manahatta, New York, 2017
Girls, piazza, churches, distance, san pietrini, cobblestones.
Piazza del Popolo, Rome, 2013
Ocean, waves, wave, birds, wind, spray, sea, water, salt, face.
Pacific Ocean Sii, Big Sur, California, 2007
Young woman, eyes, hair, mouth, distance.
Near Collect Pond, New York City, 2015
Landscape, distance, Zabriskie Point.
Tümpisa, Death Valley, California, 2005
Man, suit, suitcase, satellite, walk, statue, spear, fire, un.
United Nations Headquarters, New York City, 2016
Crowd, procession, religion, men, women, children, baby, pointing, up, Jesus, noise.
Castrum Brachiani, Bracciano, 2007
Sequoia, redwood, tree, tall, self-portrait, friend, hand, trunk, bark, forest.
Sequoia, California, 2006
Native American, indian, indigenous, costume, feathers, arrows, man, profile, face, trees.
Shorakapok Preserve, New York City, 2019
Statue of Liberty, binoculars, telescope, face, distance, bay, water.
Ellis Island, New York City, 2017
Sand, wind, chairs, children, adults, old woman, boats, beach, dad, mom.
St Ives, Cornwall, 2012
Sky, cloud, myst, fog, mountain, mountain top, hill, birds, landscape, forest, valley.
Esselen, Big Sur, California, 2007
Sealions, seals, face, hand, flipper, mammal, hair, face, expression, animals.
Achasta, Monterey, California, 2005
Donkey, fence, hand, love.
Via della Sentinella, Bracciano, 2009
Hand, print, rock, black, white, impression, mark.
Tsegi Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, 2005
Landscape, river, reflection, hill, movement, clouds, sky, pen.
Mahicantuck, New York, 2019
Young woman, snow, wind, tree, statue, column, bus, heart.
The Circle, New York City, 2015
Mom, dad, park, tree, fence, statue.
Odila and Peter, Hide Park, London, ~1997
Tree, canopy, leaves, light, still.
Columbia University, New York City, 2015
Tree, leaves, wind, movement, building, faces.
Riverside Drive, New York City, 2017
Tree, wind, storm, leaves, faces.
Inwood, New York City, 2019

Process

Photos from the process of making Windward.

Late nights editing while cat-sitting for Bruce Gilden.
Late nights editing while cat-sitting for Bruce and Sophie.
Editing at home in Rome.
Editing at home in Rome.
Editing in West Harlem, New York City.
Editing in West Harlem, New York City.
Cutting out thumbnails.
Cutting more thumbnails to carry around and show people.
Drawing of a photo that didn’t make it in this book, but will be in another.
Drawing of photo that didn’t get in this one, but’ll be in another.
Getting closer to the final edit.
Getting closer to the final edit.
Notes around one year before finishing.
One of many notes written over the years.
It’s finished!
It’s finished!
A few copies printed for gifts to friends.
A few copies printed for friends.