Christina Simons is an award-winning international documentary photographer focused on humanitarian issues and cultural diversity. Her work has been exhibited throughout Australia, the United States, England, Europe, the UAE, Russia and Mexico. Icelandic & American, Simons resides in Australia and is a true citizen of the world. She is a member of the Women Photograph collective and she regularly features as a guest speaker at a variety of Universities and global events as well as mentoring and teaching photography in Melbourne, Australia. Throughout her 25-year visual arts career, her work has featured in prominent publications such as The New York Times, the BBC Online, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Guardian UK and much more. Simons has also collaborated with several humanitarian organisations such as Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF), the UN, Marie Stopes and UNICEF. Her dedication to pursue under-reported stories 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• Lil Bullfighters : a multi-award winning series portraying the youngest participants of bullfighting in Mexico• The Haiti Project : highlighting the plight of children in domestic servitude in Haiti • Derby Girls : a multi-award winning series depicting the sport and culture of roller derby in Australia• From Violence to Peace : focusing on a positive parenting program in Papua New Guinea• Casa Xochiquetzal: depicting the people living in a home for retired *escorts in Mexico 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 Australian Apocalypse, earned various accolades. In 2022, Simons turned her attention to the impacts of extensive flooding brought about by climate change in South Sudan, and the plight of the South Sudanese community and the ongoing humanitarian disaster occurring in the newly formed country, titled Uncertain Land. Simons’ passion for social justice and compulsion to observe has resulted in the creation of striking bodies of work that offer unique visual commentary upon important social, environmental and cultural issues.