Jean-Marie Simon

Jean-Marie Simon is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Law School.

Simon was a Fulbright scholarship and was awarded the Bunting fellowship (Radcliffe/Harvard).

Simon's photographs have appeared in Time, The New York Times, The New Republic, Harper's, Geo, Vogue, and Newsweek. She has had solo exhibits at O.K. Harris Gallery (NY), The Photographers' Gallery (London), and Parco (Tokyo). Simon's photographs were also part of a widely-reviewed, 10-photographer group exhibit, "On The Line: New Color Photojournalism," which also included photographers Susan Meiselas and Gilles Peress.

Simon's book, Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny (WW Norton, NY and London), sold 20,000 copies.

In June 2010, Guatemala: Eterna Primavera, Eterna Tiranía, the Spanish-language edition of the original edition, will be published. The new edition, which was digitized at National Geographic and at Estudio/A2 in Guatemala, will contain 150 color photographs, including 50 new photos. Copies will be available for sale through Sophos bookstore and through its online sales department.