Simon Fowler is an English photographer /director
He was born in Hastings . After completing an Art Foundation course at High Wycombe College of Art and Technology he then studied photography at Amersham College of Art and Technology.
In 1974 he got his first job as a darkroom assistant at London Features International a photographic syndication agency founded in 1971 by businessman John Halsall and photographer Mike Putland. Putland left LFI in 1976 to start the RETNA. agency At around the same time Fowler left working out of his own B/W portrait studio in Henley on Thames.
In 1978/9 he went into partnership with fellow photographer and LFI employee, Paul Cox, initially working from a small office at LFI's Baker Street studios in return for their syndication rights. Specialising in music photography, they worked under the name of SLAG (Studio,Location and Gigs,) in keeping with the current anti- establishment Punk movement. They later moved premises to Bow Street Studios under The Royal Opera House Covent Garden and then to Fulham via Chester Sq Belgravia.
By 1986, having gone their separate ways Fowler and Cox were part of the dream team on the design side of the PWL empire, Pete Waterman's production company, photographing Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Rick Astley
At the time Fowler had moved in alongside Design Consultancy Stylorouge in Paddington for several years, his other clients included Boy George

Boy George

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, Spandau Ballet

Spandau Ballet

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, Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden

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, Toyah

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, Howard Jones

Howard Jones (musician)

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, Paul Young

Paul Young (singer and guitarist)

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, and Wet Wet Wet

Wet Wet Wet

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, many images finding their way onto the pages of Smash Hits, but in the case of Wet Wet Wet, for the first time the band allowed a photographer exclusive and uninhibited access on tour. The result is a book that combines the most spectacular and most intimate shots, in a blend of vibrant colour and powerful black and whites.

In 1993 began a long working relationship with actress and singer Sarah Brightman

Sarah Brightman

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, seeing him moving into directing with a TV commercial and promo for her 2008 album Symphony.
He went on to photograph a number of other classical artists including Lesley Garrett Katherine Jenkins and Elina Garanca His clientele continues to be diverse including
Jazz singer /pianist Jamie Cullum Irish musician Enya, Coleen Rooney and Thom Yorke

Fowler lives in Surrey with his wife Karen and three children, his eldest son Beau Fowler, a Film Director/Actor /Writer, Francesca Fowler, Actress /Writer and Max Fowler an actor