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Biography

Christina Simons is an award-winning international documentary photographer focused on humanitarian issues and cultural diversity. Her work has been exhibited throughout Australia, the United States, England, Europe, Russia and Mexico. Icelandic & American, Simons resides in Australia and is a true citizen of the world speaking multiple languages. She is a member of the Women Photograph collective and regularly mentors and teaches photography in Melbourne, Australia. Throughout her 25+ year visual arts career, her work has been represented in publications such as The New York Times and The Guardian UK. Simons has also worked with several NGOs such as Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF), Marie Stopes and UNICEF. Her passion for human rights, civil liberties and subcultures has culminated in various bodies of work, to name but a few: Running to Nowhere – portraying the experience of Central American refugees, this multi-award-winning body of work garnered solo exhibitions and a book publication Lil Bullfighters – a multi-award winning series portraying the youngest participants of bullfighting in Mexico The Haiti Project – highlighting the plight of children in domestic servitude in Haiti Derby Girls – a multi-award winning series depicting the sport and culture of roller derby in Australia From Violence to Peace – focusing on a positive parenting program in Papua New Guinea Casa Xochiquetzal – depicting the people living in a home for retired sex workers in Mexico More recently, Simons has focused her attention on climate change and its environmental and social impacts. Her work on assignments commissioned by the New York Times on the impact of bushfires in south-eastern Australia in 2019 – 2020, titled Australian Apocalypse which earned various accolades. In 2022, Simons turned her attention to the impacts of extensive flooding brought about by climate change in South Sudan, and the plight of the South Sudanese community and the ongoing humanitarian disaster occurring in the newly formed country, titled Uncertain Land. Simons’ passion for social justice and compulsion to observe has resulted in the creation of striking bodies of work that offer unique visual commentary upon important social, environmental and cultural issues.

Content

Total articles 21

• Available on paid plans

  Photo Essay: Uncertain Land – Climate Change and Its Impact on The Internally Displaced People of South Sudan - Turning Point

  By Christina Simons

  Jul. 24, 2024

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  AUSTRALIA YIDDISH 5

  By Christina Simons

  Jul. 18, 2023

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  Keeping an Old Italian Tradition Alive in Australia: ‘Passata Day’

  By Peter Di Sisto, Christina Simons

  Mar. 30, 2023

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