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Simon Griffee

Taking photographs helps me to think and to pay attention to things that would otherwise go unnoticed. It lets me appreciate the moment rather than worry about the future or the past, and is a way for me to make sense of life by observing where I stand in relation to people, to things and to ideas.

Apart from photography 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 currently done in its journal along with Amber’s.

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Simon Griffee

Brief Biography

I was born in Passo Fundo in the lands of southern Brazil. I traveled extensively in my 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.

I studied advertising while living in Bournemouth on the south coast of England. The idea of selling things, usually shit, for other people didn’t appeal to me, and after moving back to Rome I learned HTML and got a job in an internet startup. At that time I bought my own camera and started photographing. The company eventually closed in the dotcom crash and I began doing any freelance work I could find. A few years later I joined another company, but after one year decided to leave the routine to embark on a road trip and photograph the lands of North America.

In 2007 and 2008 I began thinking about photography more seriously. Soon I came across David Alan Harvey’s website and began learning how little I knew. I continue to travel, to work as a freelance designer, to photograph and to learn. I have also lived in Tunisia and in the United States. My home off the road is currently Bracciano, Italy.

The work in this website is copyright by me—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 can contact me with any questions.

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Simon