CARIBBEAN ADVENTURE
A few weeks spent in the Dominican Republic opens the work outward—introducing new models, new light, and a more expansive sense of place, captured across the island in a series of vivid, exploratory shoots.
DIGITAL BOOKS - Journeys and Adventures
These books extend outward—into travel, location, and lived experience. Photographs are shaped not only by the figure, but by movement through place: changing light, unfamiliar settings, and the rhythm of days spent working on location. Each volume reflects a specific time and environment, where the work is inseparable from the journey itself.
BAHIAN ADVENTURE: BOOK ONE
Bahian Adventure, Book One blends travel memoir and photography to follow Douglas Simonson’s search for two extraordinary models in Salvador, culminating in a remote beach session where landscape, spontaneity, and the male figure come together in vividly realized images.
BAHIAN ADVENTURE: BOOK TWO
Bahian Adventure: Book Two follows Douglas Simonson’s schooner journey across Bahia with two magnetic models, capturing their natural chemistry in open water and on a secluded island, where light, landscape, and spontaneity combine in a series of vivid, unforgettable images.
PALM SPRINGS ROAD TRIP
Palm Springs Road Trip captures a two-day desert shoot where light, setting, and the contrasting energies of two models come together in spontaneous, intimate photographs of the male figure.