Simon is currently based in Zurch, Switzerland.
Simon Fässler is a photographer and architect from Zurich, Switzerland. With his camera, he explores stories about identity, place, and shared history.
Before working as an independent photographer, he received a master’s degree in architecture from ETH Zurich in 2014. He practiced in Zurich, Berlin, and New York, where he also created Believe, a portrait series of middle school students in East New York, Brooklyn.
In 2023, he was selected for the ICP Masterclass in Visual Storytelling, from which he graduated with honors with the project Passion Lives Here, which portrays the current inhabitants of the former Olympic Village in Turin, Italy.
Simon is a recipient of the ICP Director’s Fellowship and graduated from the Documentary Practice program in 2026. Drawing on his own family history, he examines in After I’m Gone the social landscape surrounding End-of-Life Care and Medical Aid-in-Dying and documents the individual stories of those navigating this path.
Photo by Moira Ball
EXHIBITIONS
2026 - Group Show Evidence of Existence, After I’m Gone, 2026 ICP Recent Graduates Exhibition, International Center of Photography ICP, New York
2023 - Group Show 15 / 15. Stories From Turin, Passion Lives Here, CAMERA Centro Intaliano per la Fotografia, Turin, Italy
2022 - Group Show Tableaux Vivants, Tableaux Vivants, Architektur Forum Zürich, Zurich
2016 - Group Show Light and Space: Photographs by Architects, Chott el Djerid, FRONT art space, New York
PUBLICATIONS
2025 - MODULØR
2023 - db deutsche bauzeitung
2023 - Stadt Zürich Amt für Hochbauten, Baudokumentation AGILA Projektauswahl 2019 – 2022
2020 - Architektur Forum Ostschweiz Edition
2019 - Temporary use of brownfields, Research project, Matthias Bürgin
HONORS
2025 - Director’s Fellowship of the International Center of Photography ICP, New York
2025 - Municipality of Küttigen, Aargau, Art in Architecture, acquisition of three artworks for the new building kindergarten Storchennest
2023 - CAMERA Centro Intaliano per la Fotografia, for the series Passion Lives Here
2017 - International Photographer of the Year, category People, honorable mention
2016 - International Photographer of the Year, category People, honorable mention
2016 - International Photographer of the Year, category Architecture, honorable mention
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