Chip Simons Photography

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hi...my name is chip (charles clifton simons) Here is a quick Bio to satisfy commercial interests... A professional photographer, for over 28 years. New York City based (now in Hershey Pa) photographer Chip Simons has worked for countless publications from, Time, Esquire,GQ,People, Scientific America, Audubon,Rolling Stone, and Forbes. He has done advertising for Coke, Shimano, MTV, Nickelodeon,Apple Computer , to name a few. He is known for his wide angle and fisheye lenses, and his use of colored lights and light painting techniques...as well as his humorus and conceptual approach to all things Americana. Here is a more conceptual bio.... a basic idea/bio I try my best to be a creative, original thinker and image maker. I try to make money doing assignments,selling my images to magazines, advertisers, stock agencies, for greeting cards, and prints to people. I want to find a way to do my best creative work...and have people buy them, or license them...and be able to live somewhere really fun. ...and another... I have been doing professional photography for 27 plus years. I have been shooting since I was 12. I dress and act like an off-duty clown...sort of.. I love to eat and cook…ride motorcyles,ski,mountain bike... …..and take pictures. I like tools and solving mechanical problems. I like making things. I like science…physics. I like girls. I like colorful clothing and often the people that wear colorful,patterened,or unusual clothing. I like graphics and unusual things. I like mystery and romance. I like chance. I like kids and dogs..and animals. I like mowing the lawn. I like going fast. I like hot tubs....under the stars. I like knives..mostly kitchen knives. I like ideas and thinking….and seeing new things. now..bio thoughts. What is a biography? What do you want to read about me? I despise name-dropping ego bios….who I worked for,who I shot.why i should be so special.... Most others like to have you believe they are famous and special and..well...keep it professional (and full of exhadgeration). So, it is my ideas and desires and mysteries and passions—not the silly names of a few magazines listed that you have heard of… Fame through association does not make you a good photographer...in my eyes...(just in 90% of the worlds eyes..ha) Now...some facts and dates... My first memory was of myself being in a crib…in the garage,where it was cool in florida….…. as the family all got into the car and left. I looked around, and all of the things around me were”with”me. I had a croquet set, car tires,bikes…typical garage stuff. I wasn’t left alone, I have always lived in this funny and strange world of anthropomorphizing and personifying objects and animals. I try to realize the perspective of these objects and creatures, real and imagined. I don’t feel really comfortable with people. I have learned to overcome my discomfort using comedy and playful animation of them. People are monsters, people are cartoons, people hide behind masks,and are often in my face. The color thing started with dogs I think…kind of a Dr Suess thing. But, it was really a front for me showing, to myself and others, what emotions I was feeling.

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