Scott MacLeay
Scott MacLeay holds a Master of Science degree in economics from the London School of Economics and left his doctoral studies to pursue a career in photography in Vancouver specializing in fashion photography and editorial portraiture. In 1979, he moved to Paris to dedicate himself fulltime to his exhibition work that was represented in Paris by the Galérie Créatis and in New York by the Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery. He has exhibited widely in galleries and national museums in North and South America, Europe and Japan and his images are present in numerous private and museum collections. His unique colour palette and minimalist two-dimensional approach to the medium earned him a reputation as one of the most innovative photographers of his generation.
Best known for his four-colour work, he also experimented extensively with dichromatic techniques, research that led to the creation of his series PRIMATES, a portion of which was featured in the landmark 1988 exhibition Splendeurs et Misères du Corps at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. In the 1980s, he was named Director of the prestigious Center for Media Art and Photography (CMAP) of the avant-garde American Center in Paris
where he devoted himself to producing audio-visual projects and developing cutting-edge pedagogical programs. In 1987, he founded the MMAP (Music, Media Art and Photography) in Paris to continue the work undertaken at the CMAP and expanded his activities to include consulting for large-scale audio-visual projects in France and China. He left analogue photographic work in 1988 to compose contemporary music for video art, special format cinema and contemporary dance as well as for his musical research group Private Circus, an activity that sparked his interest in digital imagery and online technologies. The group recorded several CDs of MacLeay’s work including: Small Crowds, a contemporary opera , The Other Side of the Story, a compilation of works composed for contemporary dance and Celtic Days / Latin Nights, a collection of demo recordings of Americana country blues based songs.
Since moving to Brazil in 2010 he divides his time between new media creations, musical composition for installations and exhibitions and curating exhibitions for young Brazilian new media artists. In 2011, he founded The Creative Process, a movement devoted to developing new media and interactive work in the South of Brazil. He is the author of the book of satirical cartoons G.D. TRUC: The Man, The Book (available on Amazon), the book of essays Thinking, Feeling, And Seeing: Perception and Process in Photography (2015 Editora Photos) and the photobooks Quadrichromie 1978-1988 (2018 Creative Process) and Encounters in the Right and Left Hemispheres (2020 Creative Process). Since 2017, he has focused on new media projects involving the development of interactive, non-linear narratives.
