

A Photographic Life
The United Nations of Photography
"To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life." Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Whatever your level of engagement with photography The Photographic Life Podcast explains the realities of working with and learning about the medium. Each week photographer, writer, lecturer, filmmaker, and BBC Radio contributor Dr. Grant Scott reflects on news, discussions, themes and issues surrounding the photographic community. This is a podcast for those who do not want kit reviews, photoshop techniques, marketing babble or camera talk. It is for those who want informed conversation about photography and life. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of www.unitednationsofphotography.com, a Senior Lecturer in Photography at Oxford Brookes University, UK, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained, The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography and New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography.
His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay has been screened across the UK, and in Canada and the US.
Podcast music: Written and performed by Laura Ritchie.
Whatever your level of engagement with photography The Photographic Life Podcast explains the realities of working with and learning about the medium. Each week photographer, writer, lecturer, filmmaker, and BBC Radio contributor Dr. Grant Scott reflects on news, discussions, themes and issues surrounding the photographic community. This is a podcast for those who do not want kit reviews, photoshop techniques, marketing babble or camera talk. It is for those who want informed conversation about photography and life. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of www.unitednationsofphotography.com, a Senior Lecturer in Photography at Oxford Brookes University, UK, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained, The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography and New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography.
His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay has been screened across the UK, and in Canada and the US.
Podcast music: Written and performed by Laura Ritchie.
Episodes
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Mar 28, 2020 • 16min
A Photographic Life - 100.5: 'We Are Family! Special' Plus Photographer Deanna Dikeman
In this special episode UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on how we can respond to the current isolation many of us are experiencing, how the photo community is responding to that situation and the challenges we will all face in the future.
Plus photographer Deanna Dikeman takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer’s the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?’
You can hear the Bob Dylan song, Murder Most Foul Grant mentions in this episode here: www.bobdylan.com
Deanna Dikeman was born in 1954 in Sioux City, Iowa. She received a BS in Biology in 1976 and an MS in management in 1979 from Purdue University and has taught at the University of Missouri. Deanna has worked as a freelance photographer since 1986 and her work appears in the collections of the Aaron Siskind Foundation, the Centre for Creative Photography, Tucson and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago amongst many others. She received an Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship in 1996 and has widely exhibited her work including at San Francisco Camerawork, the Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Gallery 1401, Philadelphia, the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, the Rodgers Gallery, Columbia, and the Society for Contemporary Photography Gallery, Kansas City. Her book Leaving and Waving: 90 Good-byes was shortlisted in the 2020 MACK first book award. https://deannadikeman.com
If you have enjoyed this podcast why not check out our A Photographic Life Podcast Plus. Created as a learning resource that places the power of learning into the hands of the learner. To suggest where you can go, what you can read, who you can discover and what you can question to further your own knowledge, experience and enjoyment of photography. It will be inspiring, informative and enjoyable! You can find out here: www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcast
You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-lifeand Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast
Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019.
The documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s.
© Grant Scott 2020

Mar 25, 2020 • 26min
A Photographic Life - 100: Plus Wolfgang 'Wolf' Susitzsky
In episode 100 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the past, present and future of photography.
Plus this week Grant revisits a conversation he had in 2012 with legendary photographer and filmmaker Wolfgang 'Wolf' Susitsky at his Little Venice, London apartment when Susitsky was 100 years of age.
Vienna born Wolfgang 'Wolf' Suschitzky, was a documentary photographer, as well and cinematographer perhaps best known for his collaboration with Paul Rotha in the 1940s and his work on the, classic 1971 film Get Carter. His sister was the photographer and spy Edith Tudor-Hart. Suschitzky's first love was zoology, but he realised he could not make a living in Austria as a zoologist, he studied photography at the School of Design and Graphic Arts in Vienna. The political climate in Austria was changing and being a Socialist and of Jewish origin, Suschitzky left for London in 1934 where his sister had already moved. Suschitzky married a Dutch woman, and they moved to the Netherlands where he photographed postcards for newsagents. His wife left him a year later, which he said was great luck because if he had stayed there, he wouldn’t have survived the Nazi occupation. He returned to England in 1935, and began working as a film cameraman for Rotha, with whom he had a long working relationship. In 1940 he held his first exhibition – of animal pictures – in London and published his first book, the “how to” guide Photographing Children, which was followed by Photographing Animals a year later. Suschitzky became increasingly interested in themes prompted by Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man exhibition in 1955, and set out to explore how “people are different the world over, and everywhere the same”. His work for Geographical magazine extended into series on the daily lives of people in Burma, Thailand, Yemen, Ethiopia and India. Photography Year Books printed annually in the 1950s and 60s frequently included his images and The World Exhibition of Photography included his work in What Is Man? (1964) and Woman (1968). By the 1980s, Suschitzky was also working in television commercials and was the cinematographer for the children’s series Worzel Gummidge (1980-81). In the same decade he began to receive somewhat belated recognition for his photography, in the Art in Exile exhibition in the UK and exhibitions at the Photographers’ Gallery, the Camden Arts Centre and Zelda Cheatle Gallery. More recent publications include the retrospective Wolf Suschitzky Photos (2006), and Wolf Suschitzky Films (2010). Seven Decades of Photography appeared in 2014, the same year he was granted an honorary doctorate at the University of Brighton.Suschitzky’s photography enjoyed a renaissance this century, with his inclusion in a number of group shows, not least Another London: International Photographers Capture City Life 1930-80 at Tate Britain in 2012. Suschitzky died in October 2016 at the age of 104 in London.
You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-lifeand Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast
Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019.
The documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s.
© Grant Scott 2020

Mar 18, 2020 • 20min
A Photographic Life - 99: Plus Massimo Vitali
In episode 99 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the changing role of the photographer's assistant, using music as a metaphor for photography and finally finding a camera to fit in his pocket.
Plus this week photographer Massimo Vitali takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer’s the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?’
Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944 and moved to London after high school, where he studied photography at the London College of Printing. In the early Sixties he worked as a photojournalist, collaborating with many magazines and agencies in Italy and Europe. It was during this time that he met Simon Guttmann, the founder of the Report agency, who was to become fundamental in Massimo’s growth as a “Concerned Photographer”. At the beginning of the Eighties a growing mistrust in the belief that photography had an absolute capacity to reproduce the subtleties of reality led to a change in his career path and he began working as a cinematographer for television and cinema. However, his relationship with the still camera never ceased, and he eventually turned his attention back to photography. In 1995 he began the Beach Series a series of Italian beach panoramas begun in the light of drastic political changes in Italy. He lives and works in Lucca, Italy, and Berlin, Germany. www.massimovitali.com
If you have enjoyed this podcast why not check out our A Photographic Life Podcast Plus. Created as a learning resource that places the power of learning into the hands of the learner. To suggest where you can go, what you can read, who you can discover and what you can question to further your own knowledge, experience and enjoyment of photography. It will be inspiring, informative and enjoyable! You can find out here: www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcast
You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-lifeand Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast
Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019.
The documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s.
© Grant Scott 2020

Mar 11, 2020 • 20min
A Photographic Life - 98: Plus Pixy Liao
In episode 98 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the importance of expectation, dealing with art directors and commissioners, the work of Harry Callaghan and playing the bass badly.
Plus this week photographer Pixy Liao takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer’s the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?’
Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Pixy Liao is an artist currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Her work sheds light on traditional gender roles, asking the viewer to question their place in society, and in particular, within heterosexual relationships. She is a recipient of a NYFA Fellowship in photography, a Santo Foundation Individual Artist Award, and a En Foco's New Works Fellowship. Pixy has also completed artist residencies at the University of Arts London, the School of Visual Arts RISO Lab, the Centre for Photography at Woodstock, and the Camera Club of New York. She has participated in exhibitions and performances in institutions internationally, including the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China); He Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen, China); the Museum of Sex (New York, USA); Asia Society (Houston, USA); Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool, UK); Chambers Fine Art (NY); Leo Xu Projects (Shanghai, China); and Firstdraft Gallery (Sydney, Australia). Liao holds an MFA in photography from the University of Memphis. http://pixyliao.com
If you have enjoyed this podcast why not check out our A Photographic Life Podcast Plus. Created as a learning resource that places the power of learning into the hands of the learner. To suggest where you can go, what you can read, who you can discover and what you can question to further your own knowledge, experience and enjoyment of photography. It will be inspiring, informative and enjoyable! You can find out here: www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcast
You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-lifeand Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast
Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019.
The documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s.
© Grant Scott 2020

Mar 4, 2020 • 19min
A Photographic Life - 97: Plus Mark Neville
In episode 97 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on a recent exhibition visit and enthusiast photo magazines, yet more pay-to-play 'initiatives' and ensuring the possibilities that photography offers are understood.
Plus this week photographer Mark Neville takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer’s the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?’
The documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s.
© Grant Scott 2020

Feb 26, 2020 • 20min
A Photographic Life - 96: Plus Vinca Petersen
In episode 96 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering photography's need to be at the centre of the creative arts, setting up collaborative collectives, and the positive creative aspects of difficulty!
Plus this week photographer Vinca Peterson takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer’s the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?’
Vinca Petersen got her first camera at the age of seven or eight. In 1990, age 17 she moved to London, telling her parents she was going to art school. Instead, she moved into a squat, and got involved in alternative politics as well as the rave/free party scene, occasionally working as a model in fashion spreads and music videos. Vinca met the photographer Corinne Day, who became a mentor of sorts, occasionally giving her cameras, film, and confidence to continue taking her pictures. She adopted a nomadic lifestyle travelling Europe, living in trucks until her son was born in 2005. Throughout, this time she took photographs, eventually collecting them into a book, No System published by Steidl in 1999 and reissued in 2019, when it was included in one of the first ever displays of photo books at Tate Modern, London. In 2010, Petersen created Future Youth Project, working with children in Thanet, Kent and in the Ukraine, where provision for children with learning difficulties has been limited. Her alter ego ArtNurse, popped up at the 2010 Paris Photo festival, Arles Photo and Brighton Photo Fringe dispensing gold glitter and administering vodka shots by syringe as well as dancing with strangers and selling postcards to raise funds for FYP. Before FYP, she persuaded the designer and founder of the fashion brand Maharishi, Hardy Blechman, to design and donate a monumental inflatable that she took to orphanages and schools through Europe, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Romania and Ukraine. Recent photo books include Future Fantasy examining her earliest years during the second summer of love, and Deuce and a Quarter, created during a road trip across the American South made with three girlfriends. Vinca has participated in multiple group exhibitions and solo exhibitions of images and this year her work will be exhibited at the Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol. Petersen has never worked to commission. https://vincapetersen.com
If you have enjoyed this podcast why not check out our A Photographic Life Podcast Plus. Created as a learning resource that places the power of learning into the hands of the learner. To suggest where you can go, what you can read, who you can discover and what you can question to further your own knowledge, experience and enjoyment of photography. It will be inspiring, informative and enjoyable! You can find out here: www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcast
You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-life and Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast
Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019.
His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s.
© Grant Scott 2020

Feb 19, 2020 • 20min
A Photographic Life - 95: Plus Anton Kusters
In episode 95 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed, feeling political and strident, suggesting that the photographic establishment need to start talking 'with' not 'at' photographers, reflecting on issues of photographic self-doubt and calling for a punk informed attitude amongst the photo community to creating new initiatives!
Plus this week photographer Anton Kusters takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer’s the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?’
Anton Kusters was born in Belgium in 1974, and obtained a master's degree in Political Science at K.U.Leuven, Belgium. He studied photography at STUK Leuven and at the Academy of Fine Arts, Hasselt, Belgium. Kusters has photographed, published and exhibited two major bodies of work, the Yakuza in 2011 and Mono No Aware in 2014. In 2017 he completed the online epistolary #image_by_image, an experimental public dialogue based on associations of image and word, fragment and concept, re-contextualisation and reflection. In 2019 year he was nominated for the Prix Pictet, and he is a finalist in the 2020 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for his exhibition The Blue Skies Project in the Fitzrovia Chapel, London, curated and produced by longstanding collaborator Monica Allende. An installation of The Blue Skies Project will be exhibited in 2019-2021 at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, and in 2020 a monograph on the work will be published. He is currently working on several installations and collaborations: Caduta Massi, La C.H., and On Your Shoulders We Stand. Anton was also the co-founder of BURN Magazine, an online platform dedicated to emerging photographers. He currently lives and works in Belgium and Tokyo. https://antonkusters.com
If you have enjoyed this podcast why not check out our A Photographic Life Podcast Plus. Created as a learning resource that places the power of learning into the hands of the learner. To suggest where you can go, what you can read, who you can discover and what you can question to further your own knowledge, experience and enjoyment of photography. It will be inspiring, informative and enjoyable! You can find out here: www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcast
You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-life and Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast
Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019.
His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s.
© Grant Scott 2020

Feb 12, 2020 • 20min
A Photographic Life - 94: Plus Julia Fullerton-Batten
In episode 94 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering pay-to-play publishing, photography as a big business revenue stream, and opening the door to the realities of creating a photographic practice.
Plus this week photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer’s the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?’
Julia Fullerton-Batten was born in 1970 in Bremen, Germany. She moved to the USA the same year with her family where she stayed until 1979, before spending six years back in Germany and moving to the UK in 1986. She studied at the Berkshire College of Art & Design, Reading, UK, before working as a freelance photo assistant, and progressing to work full-time as a professional photographer in 2001. Her personal photographic practice now encompasses twelve major projects spanning a decade. These include Teenage Stories (2007), an evocative narrative of the transition of a teenage girl to womanhood and The Act, (2016), a comprehensive study of the performing and private lives of fifteen women active in the UK sex industry. Julia’s use of unusual locations, highly creative settings, street-cast models, accented with cinematic lighting are hallmarks of her distinctive photography. She has won countless awards for both her commissioned advertising work and contemporary art practice. Julia is a Hasselblad Master and lives in London with her husband and two young boys. www.juliafullerton-batten.com
If you have enjoyed this podcast why not check out our A Photographic Life Podcast Plus. Created as a learning resource that places the power of learning into the hands of the learner. To suggest where you can go, what you can read, who you can discover and what you can question to further your own knowledge, experience and enjoyment of photography. It will be inspiring, informative and enjoyable! You can find out here: www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcast
You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-life and Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast
Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019.
His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s.
© Grant Scott 2020

Feb 5, 2020 • 20min
A Photographic Life - 93: Plus Anna Boyiazis
In episode 93 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering the slow death of photo magazines, unrealistic expectations, staying true to your work and yourself.
Plus this week photographer Anna Boyiazis takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer’s the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?’
Anna Boyiazis is an American documentary photographer based between Southern California and East Africa. She earned a MFA from the Yale University School of Art and a BA from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. She spent the early years of her career designing a variety of publications - predominantly books - with international art and architecture organisations. Anna taught at both the Art Center College of Design and the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, and served a teaching fellowship at the Yale University School of Art. Since 2006 she has focused on her photography and her ongoing project Finding Freedom in the Water, has been featured by National Geographic magazine. She is a 2019 Prix Pictet Nominee, the recipient of a 2019 Getty Images Reportage Grant, a 2018 Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, 2018 Alfred Fried Peace Image of the Year, 2018 Contemporary African Photography Prize, 2018 Pictures of the Year International Award of Excellence, 2018 Women Photograph/Nikon Grant, 2018 World Press Photo Award, and 2017 UNICEF Photo of the Year Honorable Mention. Photographs from the project were included in the DYSTURB #WomenMatter campaign against violence towards women, and the 2017 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. Anna is a contributing photographer for ESPN, GEO, Médecins Sans Frontières, UNICEF, National Geographic and Stern magazines. She has been a guest speaker at the Austrian Parliament, World Press Photo Exhibition, and World Press Photo Festival. www.annaboyiazis.com
If you have enjoyed this podcast why not check out our A Photographic Life Podcast Plus. Created as a learning resource that places the power of learning into the hands of the learner. To suggest where you can go, what you can read, who you can discover and what you can question to further your own knowledge, experience and enjoyment of photography. It will be inspiring, informative and enjoyable! You can find out here: www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcast
You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-life and Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast
Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019.
His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s.
© Grant Scott 2020

Jan 29, 2020 • 20min
A Photographic Life - 92: Plus Seth Lower
In episode 92 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering the importance of visiting photo exhibitions, working with online and off-line platforms, and the selfie as evidence. He also asks if the photo competition has had its day!
Plus this week photographer Seth Lower takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer’s the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?’
San Francisco based Seth Lower studied for his BFA at The University of Michigan, before completing his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute, in 2008. An education that led him to be appointed as a visiting artist/lecturer, at the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 2012 and as artist-in-residence/lecturer, at Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2009. His work has been exhibited on multiple occasions worldwide within group and solo shows and as numerous publications. He has also created three books from his projects, Man with Buoy and Other Tales, in 2010 published by Little Brown Mushroom, The Sun Shone Glaringly, by The Ice Plant in 2014 and Units, published by Mack in 2019. His work is held in public collections including The Palais des Beaux Arts Wien, Vienna, Austria,Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY and the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan. www.sethlower.com
If you have enjoyed this podcast why not check out our A Photographic Life Podcast Plus. Created as a learning resource that places the power of learning into the hands of the learner. To suggest where you can go, what you can read, who you can discover and what you can question to further your own knowledge, experience and enjoyment of photography. It will be inspiring, informative and enjoyable! You can find out here: www.patreon.com/aphotographiclifepodcast
You can also access and subscribe to these podcasts at SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-photographic-life/id1380344701 on Player FM https://player.fm/series/a-photographic-life and Podbean www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/i6uqx-6d9ad/A-Photographic-Life-Podcast
Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019.
His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay can now be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU&t=3915s.
© Grant Scott 2020