Grant Scott

Grant Scott became a professional photographer in 2000 after working for fifteen years as an art director of photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler in the UK. His images and photographic narratives bring together his experience working with some of the greatest photographers of the last century such as William Klein, Don McCullin, Sylvia Plachy, Corrinne Day, Jean Loup Sieff, Steve Pyke, David Bailey and Herb Ritts with his graphic and journalistic talents.

He has edited Professional Photographer, Photography Monthly, and Turning Pro magazines in the UK and is now a freelance photographer, the Subject Co-ordinator: Photography and Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, and the founder and curator/editor of The United Nations of Photography. He has been a jury member on the World Press Photo Multi-Media Awards as well as a judge of numerous international photographic competitions. As a photographer he has worked for a broad range of international clients including Vogue, Instyle, Glamour, Bang & Olufson, Young & Rubicam, John Lewis, IKEA and Sony Ericsson amongst others.

Grant has exhibited both nationally and internationally and his first monograph of photography, At Home with the Makers of Style, was published by Thames & Hudson in 2006. He has since written three books, The Photographs Landscape Explained, The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography and New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography.

His work is held in the permanent collections of the MOMA, New York, Tate, London, Victoria & Albert Museum, London and The British Library.

You can read more of Grant's writing at www.unitednationsofphotography.com and listen to his weekly podcast A Photographic Life on all podcast platforms.

You can also find out about Grant's first film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay at www.dontbendfilm.com.