Simon is currently based in Zurch, Switzerland.
Simon Fässler is a photographer and architect from Zurich, Switzerland. With his camera, he explores identity, place, and shared history.
After receiving his master’s in architecture in 2014, he traveled to Tunisia where he documented an abandoned hot spring near the arid salt lake Chott el Djerid.
In 2016, he participated in a seminar at the International Center of Photography ICP where he created Believe, a portrait series of middle school students in East New York, Brooklyn.
In 2022, he began Tableaux Vivants, a video-based study of urban landscapes.
The following year, he was selected for the ICP Masterclass, graduating with honors with Passion Lives Here, which portrays the current inhabitants of the former Olympic Village in Turin, Italy.
Simon is a recipient of the International Center of Photography Director’s Fellowship in 2025 and graduated from the Documentary Practice program in 2026 with After I’m Gone. In this project, he examines the social landscape surrounding End-of-Life Care and Medical Aid-in-Dying, and documents the individual stories of those navigating it.
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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