Simone Scholtz (b1980) was introduced to photography at Rhodes University (BJournalism, with distinction, 2003). In 2024 she worked as newspaper photographer in Cape Town at Die Burger. She was a runner-up in the Mondi newspaper awards for her story on subsistence fishermen.

 

Simone travelled to Bolivia in 2005, where she worked for an NGO, PASCAR. This resulted in work for GreaterGoodSA. She documented grass roots organizations across South Africa and held a solo exhibition at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 2009.

 

Simone shot various in-depth features for magazines and won the Vodacom Award for best photographer in the Western Cape in 2007 and 2008.

 

In 2011 she completed an MA in International Multimedia Journalism (Beijing Foreign Studies University). She has been teaching photography part-time at Paarl Girls High since 2021. At present she is working on a series of portraits under the night sky.