Bryan is a critically-acclaimed and award winning filmmaker and author. He began filmmaking and photography in grade school. "My parents got me a Kodak Instamatic to shoot my very first pictures. When I was a junior in High School I got a Mamiya 35mm camera that I used throughout high school. Eventually I moved on to a Nikon FM and FM2 as well as a Yashika-24, all of which I still have today."
Artist Chuck Close said, "It's the easiest medium in which to be competent. Anybody with a point and shoot camera can take a competent picture. But it's the hardest medium to express some kind of personal vision because there is no touch, there is no hand, there is no physicality. The fact that you can have recognizable authorship means they really have done something, because it's a damn hard thing to do."
In the early 90's Marge and I backpacked for over five weeks through Southwest China. Our goal was to seek out minority peoples such as the Miao, Dong, Yao and Buyi. Of the hundreds of photographs I took along the way, here are a few from our difficult journey that changed us forever.
All works are available for exhibition and sale. Feel free to visit Bryan's main site, bryanwsimon.com to learn more about Bryan's filmmaking and writing.
