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The audio recordings collected within this archive are curated by Dr.Grant Scott and were originally broadcast as part of his podcast series A Photographic Life. In the podcast Scott asks photographers to answer a simple question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?’ in less than five minutes. The process of broadcasting the answers to this question continues but as the podcast developed it was clear to Scott that an invaluable archive was evolving.

The intention of this archive is to act as an information and inspiration resource, providing insight into a multitude of different photographic practices and to foster understanding of photographic intention, impetus and outcome. In addition to the contributions from photographers answering the question set by Scott this archive contains informal conversations with photographers and those engaged with photography that deal with issues of photographic practice that face the medium and its practitioners in the 21st Century.

You can listen to the A Photographic Life podcast at www.unitednationsofphotography.com and all podcast platforms including Spotify, iTunes and Google podcasts.

Dr.Grant Scott
After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Scott began to work as a photographer for a number of advertising and editorial clients in 2000. Alongside his photographic career Scott has art directed numerous advertising campaigns, worked as a creative director at Sotheby’s, art directed foto8magazine, founded his own photographic gallery, edited Professional Photographer magazine and launched his own title for photographers and filmmakers Hungry Eye. He founded the United Nations of Photography in 2012, and is now a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography BA (HONS) and MA at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, and a BBC Radio contributor.

Scott is the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019), and What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020). His photography has been published in At Home With The Makers of Style (Thames & Hudson 2006) and Crash Happy: A Night at The Bangers (Cafe Royal Books 2012). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was premiered in 2018.

His next book Conde Nast Have left the Building: Six Decades of Vogue House will be published by Orphans Publishing in the Spring of 2024.