New Jersey native JOEL SIMPSON has been photographing since he was a teenager in the 1960s, turning pro in 2002. He is largely self-taught. In between, he received a PhD in comparative literature from Brown, spent 10 years teaching college English, French, and Italian and had a 22-year career in jazz piano. He has also worked as a music and art critic.
Since 2002 he has had over 50 shows and publications of his art in the US and abroad, including Paris, Barcelona, and Rome. His work has been published in the US, Belgium, France and India, and he has received numerous awards. His 2019 mostly color landscape book focusing on remarkable geology, Earthforms: Intimate Portraits of Our Planet, received enthusiastic reviews plus the prestigious 2019 Nautilus Gold Award for Art and Photography, and he was named 10th Best Landscape Photographer (along with 16 other artists) of 2019 by One Eyeland, of India. His work is currently collected by the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center of Brooklyn. In the past year his work has been featured on-line in The Eye of Photography, brutjournal.com, Photo Independent (exhibition), Shades of Grey, and Inspirational Art, and published in The Hand,
