About Fran Simó

Born July 21, 1973, Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina.
Moved to Barcelona in 1998 and to Palma de Mallorca in 2014.

Studied Software engineering in Argentina and Spain. He also formed as artist through seminars/course with: from Javier Vallhonrat, Alberto García­Alix, Tino Soriano, Alfons
Rodríguez, Rocío Rodríguez Salceda, Marta Gili (cultural management), Alex Posada (interactive art), Andrea Michaelsson (graffiti) y Pau Guillamet (music).

Main artistic activity since 2006 to 2014 was create, organize, curate and promote participative and collaborative projects for Barcelona Photobloggers, an on­line social network of amateur and professional photographers of Barcelona Area.
During this period he coordinated 15 exhibitions, 3 books and 16 debates. Most of them based in participative or collaborative process through online communities/tools.

As photographer he participated in exhibitions in New York, Fort Collins, Perpignan, Barcelona and Madrid among others. He self published 2 photobooks.

Main themes: portrait, urban, work, time, technology.

Fran Simó's Projects on LensCulture
Fran Simó's Books