Simon Bolton

My name is Simon Bolton an award winning photographer with over 25 years experience shooting images professionally. I continue to be inspired by making art work with my camera. I have studied the art of photography for a very long time and it still inspires me to make more work today.

I make work that could be considered documentary using an arbitrary way composing and clicking my shutter shooting as life as it happens, but I also use this way making my art work when capturing landscapes and abstracts in nature.

I started my photography journey as a trainee photo-journalist and a regional newspaper in Lancashire in the UK. Part of my training was using black and white film ( Ilford 125 or 400) using wet processes to develop film and print in a darkroom. Although the process of photography has changed dramatically the principles of producing great imagery has remained the same whether using darkroom techniques or using post production with digital imagery


I recently won an 2 IPA awards
2020 'Oneshot/ Movement/ Highly Commended
2021 'Oneshot/ Our Times/ Highly Commended

I started a 8 year project whilst completing my BA in photography and completed it as part of my final piece of work during studying for an MFA ...

MFA Documentary Photography
University of Wales
2007 - 2009

BA Photography
Derby University
2000 - 2003

Format Festival 2011
Magnum

Foto Gallery 2009

Hotshoe Magazine May 2011

Retro Mods Solo Show
The Quad 2008