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Simon Griffee

Taking photographs helps me to see a moment again and to appreciate these moments. It is a way for me to make sense of life by observing my relationship to people, to things and to ideas. Photography is a way for me to be happy, to live now. It certainly helps me keep sane.

Apart from photography some of my other loves are travel, blues guitar, vintage aeroplanes and graphic design. My design work portfolio is at Hypertexthero.com. I use my design work to help me continue traveling and photographing.

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 regularly. 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, do design work, and photograph. 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 Simon Griffee. Use any of the work here as long as you ask me and I say ‘Okay!’, 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. Do get in touch with any questions you may have.

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Thank you for visiting!
Simon