Simon Bainbridge is a writer, editor, educator and consultant specialising in contemporary photography. Photography correspondent for The Art Newspaper. Former Editorial Director of BJP, and Head of Content at Magnum. Author of Magnum Artists.

In 2010 he co-curated Paper, Rock, Scissors: The Constructed Image in New British Photography at Toronto’s Flash Forward festival. And in 2011 he curated Time & Motion Studies: New Documentary Photography Beyond the Decisive Moment at Hereford Photography Festival. He has been a judge or nominator for numerous awards, including the Deutsche Börse Prize, Prix Pictet and Hasselblad Award, and he has worked with education institutions including The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and École cantonale d’art de Lausanne.