Australia · Fine Art Photography
Simon Ray
Intimate encounters with landscape, structure and atmosphere.
Simon Ray moves between natural landscapes, aerial environments, urban spaces and live performance. His photographs are grounded in careful observation and an intuitive response to light, scale and perspective—transforming familiar places into images that feel quiet, immersive and enduring.
Simon Ray · Newcastle Ocean Baths
Simon Ray · Canberra, Australia
Biography
A refined sensitivity to place.
Simon Ray is a Canberra-based fine art photographer whose practice is shaped by light, perspective, atmosphere and a sustained curiosity about the world around him.
His work moves across landscapes, coastlines, aerial environments, urban spaces and live music. Rather than treating these subjects as separate genres, Simon approaches each through the same underlying concerns: scale, structure, timing and emotional presence.
Observation is central to the practice. A shifting cloud, an elevated vantage point, the geometry of a pool or the energy of a live performance becomes an opportunity to create images that balance technical control with instinctive response.
Simon’s aerial work reveals colour, repetition and pattern that remain hidden at ground level. His coastal and urban photographs are often quieter, using space and carefully placed human figures to create a sense of stillness and proportion.
With national recognition across landscape, urban and professional photographic awards, his imagery continues to develop through travel, experimentation and a commitment to finely produced photographic prints.
Artistic Practice
Perspective changes what can be seen.
Simon’s images range from restrained coastal scenes to saturated aerial abstractions. Across each body of work, composition is used to organise complexity and create a deliberate relationship between the viewer, the subject and the surrounding space.
Stillness shaped by architecture and water.
Ocean pools, coastlines and open horizons are composed with restraint, allowing colour, human scale and negative space to carry the image.
The landscape becomes colour and pattern.
From above, agricultural land and altered terrain become abstract compositions of repetition, division and unexpected chromatic intensity.
Beauty and disturbance held together.
Mining traces and transformed landscapes are presented without easy resolution, balancing visual seduction with evidence of human intervention.
Structure, timing and human energy.
In built environments and live performance, Simon responds to geometry, gesture and fleeting shifts in light—finding intimacy within public spaces and shared moments.
Selected Works
Simon Ray.
Explore selected photographic works spanning coastal, aerial, landscape and urban environments, presented through IRID Gallery.
Explore the collectionSelected Recognition
National awards across landscape and urban photography.
Simon’s work has received recognition across major Australian photographic platforms, reflecting a consistent command of timing, composition, atmosphere and perspective.
Highly Commended · The Landscape Awards
Urban category recognition for The National Carillon.
Highly Commended · The Landscape Awards
Urban category recognition for Hotair.
Highly Commended · The Landscape Awards
Urban category recognition for Valparaiso Banksy.
Runner Up · Australian Photography Landscape Awards
Urban category · Australia.
Gold Award
Australian Professional Photography Awards.
Silver with Distinction & multiple Silver Awards
Recognition across professional photographic competition.
Print Practice
Made for considered spaces.
Simon’s photographic works are produced across carefully selected archival print and presentation formats. Edition structure, size and available finishes vary by work, allowing each image to be presented in a way that supports its colour, scale and intended visual presence.
Selected releases are issued in declared editions and accompanied by artist documentation.
Heavyweight museum-grade papers and archival pigment inks support longevity and tonal detail.
Framed options may include matboard and UV-protective glazing, subject to the individual work.
Selected images may also be available on fine art canvas or dye-sublimated metal.
Eligible limited-edition works include a signed certificate recording the artwork and edition.
IRID can assist with selecting the right size, finish and presentation for your space.
Private Collector Service
Collecting Simon Ray.
IRID Gallery can assist with available works, edition information, size, framing and presentation. Whether you are drawn to Simon’s coastal stillness, aerial colour or urban structure, the gallery can help identify the right work and scale for your collection.
Discuss subject, colour, scale and the feeling you want to create.
Edition and production details are supplied for eligible works.
Compare paper, framing, canvas and alternative presentation options.
Receive guidance on proportion, hanging height and visual relationship to the space.