JM Simpson

JM Simpson is a retired community college history instructor; he is currently a documentary photographer residing in Lacey, Washington.  

He earned a Cable Act Award in 1994 for writing about the collapse of the 1st Tacoma Narrows Bridge; he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his photographic coverage of Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldiers during combat operations in Baghdad in 2007; and he earned the Washington Press Association’s “Communicator of Excellence Sweepstakes Award” in both 2007 and 2008.

The US Army Heritage & Education Center and the Fort Lewis Museum house much of the photography Simpson took from 2005 through 2012 while covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He has been published in the Canadian Camera Magazine, Olympus Passion, Photo PXL, The Ranger Newspaper, Street Photography Magazine and (currently) The JOLT News.

A native of Indiana, Simpson earned a BA in history from Central Michigan University and a MA in social science from Pacific Lutheran University.

He recently appeared on KBCT’s Northwest Now, a PBS affiliate. Watch it here.

He can be contacted at jmsimpson1@gmail.com.