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, the BBC and The Guardian UK. Simons has also worked extensively with several NGOs such as Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF), Marie Stopes and UNICEF.
Her passion for human rights, and social justice 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
The Haiti Project – highlighting the plight of children in domestic servitude in Haiti
From Violence to Peace – focusing on a positive parenting program in Papua New Guinea
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
