David Sims (photographer)

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| name = David Sims

| partner = Luella Bartley

| other_names =

| occupation = Photographer

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966}}

| birth_place = Sheffield, England

| website = {{URL|www.davidsims.com}}

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David Sims (born 1966) is a British fashion photographer who first made his name in the early 1990s.

Commercial career

Sims was born in Sheffield. He worked first as a photographer's assistant with Robert Erdmann and Norman Watson.{{cite web |url=http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/David_Sims |title=David Sims - Voguepedia |publisher=Vogue.com |date= |accessdate=12 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140704005659/http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/David_Sims |archive-date=4 July 2014 |url-status=dead }} He was taken on by a photography agency and his work began to feature in editorial pages of magazines. He has also worked in advertising, creating images for brands.{{cite web |url=http://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/bowievirus-david-sims |title=BOWIEVIRUS: David Sims | Institute of Contemporary Arts |publisher=Ica.org.uk |date= |accessdate=12 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127022115/http://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/bowievirus-david-sims |archive-date=27 November 2016 |url-status=dead }}

Exhibitions

International exhibitions of Sims' work have been held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.{{cite web|author= |url=http://showstudio.com/contributor/david_sims |title=David Sims - SHOWstudio - The Home of Fashion Film |publisher=SHOWstudio |date=23 January 2002 |accessdate=12 January 2014}}

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London held a solo exhibition of Sims' work in 2013.

Collections

His work is held in the permanent collections of London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and Tate Modern.{{cite web|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/rad_fash/html/study/index.html |title=V&A Museum - Radical Fashion |publisher=Vam.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=12 January 2014}}

Awards

Sims was named young fashion photographer of the year twice (1994 and 1996) at the Hyères International Fashion and Photography Festival.

Personal life

Sims once lived in Cornwall with his partner, the fashion designer Luella Bartley.{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/person/luella-bartley |title=Luella Bartley (Vogue.com UK) |publisher=Vogue.co.uk |date= |accessdate=12 January 2014}} They now live in London.{{cite web|accessdate=24 January 2019|title=David Simsis One of the 500 People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry in 2018|url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/community/people/david-sims|website=The Business of Fashion}}

References

External links

{{FMD photographer|david-sims}}
{{Models.com|david-sims}}

Category:1966 births

Category:Living people

Category:Photographers from Yorkshire

Category:British fashion photographers

Category:Artists from Sheffield