He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied with the American master (and street photographer) Harry Callahan. He has published in ON COMMON GROUND, Photographs from the Crossroads of the New South (Mercer Press, 1996), and CHROMA (Nazraeli Press 2011). Simone’s work is found in many private and museum collections, including the High Museum of Art, which mounted a retrospective of his work in 2011. He is represented by Jackson Fine Art.