"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. He also asks a photographer to supply him with an ...
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A Photographic Life - 331: 'Jean Loup Sieff, Fred Herzog, Making Friends and Keeping Diaries'
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In episode 331 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the big and small things that impact on the everyday engagement we all have with photography.Dr.Grant ScottAfter 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 ed…
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A Photographic Life - 333: A Photographic Conversation With Bill Shapiro 'Sports Photography'
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In this monthly conversation series Grant Scott speaks with editor, writer and curator of photography Bill Shapiro. In an informal conversation each month Grant and Bill comment on the photographic environment as they see it. This month they reflect on sports photography.Bill ShapiroBill Shapiro served as the Editor-in-Chief of LIFE, the legendary …
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In episode 329 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the big and small things that impact on the everyday engagement we all have with photography.Dr.Grant ScottAfter 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 ed…
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A Photographic Life - 328: See/Saw with Fiona Hayes 'Tim Hetherington, Naomi Hobson, Roger Mayne'
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In this monthly conversation series Grant Scott speaks with art director, lecturer and creative director Fiona Hayes. In an informal conversation each month Grant and Fiona comment on the photographic environment as they see it through the exhibitions, magazines, talks and events that Fiona has seen over the previous weeks.Fiona HayesFiona Hayes is…
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In episode 337 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the small and big things that impact on the everyday engagement we all have with photography.Dr.Grant ScottAfter 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 ed…
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A Photographic Life - 326: A Photographic Conversation With Bill Shapiro 'How To Tell a Photo Story'
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In this monthly conversation series Grant Scott speaks with editor, writer and curator of photography Bill Shapiro. In an informal conversation each month Grant and Bill comment on the photographic environment as they see it. This month they respond to a listener's question and discuss how to create a narrative based series of images.Mentioned in t…
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In episode 335 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the small and big things that impact on the everyday engagement we all have with photography.Dr.Grant ScottAfter 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 ed…
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A Photographic Life - 324: See/Saw with Fiona Hayes 'Okamura, Ernest Cole, Beyond Fashion...'
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In this monthly conversation series Grant Scott speaks with art director, lecturer and creative director Fiona Hayes. In an informal conversation each month Grant and Fiona comment on the photographic environment as they see it through the exhibitions, magazines, talks and events that Fiona has seen over the previous weeks.Fiona HayesFiona Hayes is…
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In episode 318 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the small and big things that impact on the everyday engagement we all have with photography.Mentioned in this episode:Fred and Harry Borden: Photoshoot Breakdown https://www.youtube.com/@fredandharrybordenDr.Grant ScottAfter fifteen years art directing photography book…
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A Photographic Life 322: 'The Leica Look, Finding a Story, Big Macs and The Fear of Narrative'
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In episode 318 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his garage reflecting on the small and big things that impact on the everyday engagement we all have with photography.Dr.Grant ScottAfter 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 …
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A Photographic Life - 321: A Photographic Conversation With Bill Shapiro 'Teaching Photography'
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In this monthly conversation series Grant Scott speaks with editor, writer and curator of photography Bill Shapiro. In an informal conversation each month Grant and Bill comment on the photographic environment as they see it. This month they reflect on teaching photography and the role of the teacher.Bill ShapiroBill Shapiro served as the Editor-in…
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A Photographic Life 320: 'Talking Vivienne Maier, Analogue Smartphones and Artist or Journalist?'
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In episode 320 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the small and big things that impact on the everyday engagement we all have with photography.Mentioned in this episode:www.vivianmaier.comImage: Vivienne Maier, Self-Portrait, 1953Dr.Grant ScottAfter fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as El…
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A Photographic Life - 319: See/Saw with Fiona Hayes 'Burtynsky, Waplington, Strizzi, Deakin...'
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In this monthly conversation series Grant Scott speaks with art director, lecturer and creative director Fiona Hayes. In an informal conversation each month Grant and Fiona comment on the photographic environment as they see it through the exhibitions, magazines, talks and events that Fiona has seen over the previous weeks.Fiona Hayes is an art dir…
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In episode 318 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the small and big things that impact on the everyday engagement we all have with photography.Image: © Robert Adams, Colorado Springs,1974Mentioned in this episode:https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/robert-adamshttps://www.uarts.eduwww.bristol247.com/news-and-features/n…
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A Photographic Life - 317: A Photographic Conversation With Bill Shapiro 'Learning Photography'
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In this monthly conversation series Grant Scott speaks with editor, writer and curator of photography Bill Shapiro. In an informal conversation each month Grant and Bill comment on the photographic environment as they see it. This month they reflect on teaching/learning photography and the role of the teacher and the student.Bill ShapiroBill Shapir…
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A Photographic Life - 316: 'Camera Bags, W. Eugene Smith, and The Corruption of Social Media'
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In episode 315 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the small and big things that impact on the everyday engagement we all have with photography.Dr.Grant ScottAfter 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 ed…
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In episode 315 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the small and big things that impact on the everyday engagement we all have with photography.Mentioned in this episode: https://www.martinparrfoundation.org/events/british-photography-in-the-1990s/Dr.Grant ScottAfter fifteen years art directing photography books and mag…
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In episode 314 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the need for change, and explains how the podcast will be evolving now it is coming from a garage and not a shed! He aslo reads a short extract from his latest book Inside Vogue House: One Building. Seven magazines. Sixty years of stories...Plus this week, photographer …
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In episode 313 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the importance of being professional and not egotistical when working with clients and discovering who you really are through photography.Plus this week, photographer Tria Giovan takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in le…
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A Photographic Life - 312: Plus The Conversation with Bill Shapiro 'Editorial Photography: Part 3'
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In this monthly conversation series Grant Scott speaks with editor, writer and curator of photography Bill Shapiro. In an informal conversation each month Grant and Bill comment on the photographic environment as they see it. This month they reflect on where the magazine industry and editorial photography are today from the photographer’s perspecti…
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In episode 311 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on looking back and looking forward, the failure of AI photography and the importance of visiting local photography exhibitions.Plus this week, photographer Chantel King takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in whic…
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In episode 310 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the need to regularly replenish your cretivity and inspiration source and he reads from his new book Inside Vogue House: One building, seven magazines, sixty years of stories.Plus this week, photographer Kyle McDougall takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an a…
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In episode 309 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the universal availability of post-production software, the siloed nature of photography and the continued thinning out of experience amongst photography commissioners.Plus this week, photographer Mandy Williams takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio fi…
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A Photographic Life - 309: The Conversation with Bill Shapiro 'Editorial Photography: Part 2'
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In this monthly conversation series Grant Scott speaks with editor, writer and curator of photography Bill Shapiro. In an informal conversation each month Grant and Bill comment on the photographic environment as they see it. This month they reflect on where the magazine industry and editorial photography are today from the photographer's perspecti…
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In episode 307 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on photography and the 1990s, keeping ethemera that may or may not be important and the importance of making mistakes to creative success.Plus this week, photographer Michael Robinson Chávez takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minu…
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In episode 306 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the royal family and image manipulation, why you should undertake an MA in photography and he reads a listener's email!Plus this week, photographer Xavi Bou takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answe…
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In episode 305 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the democratization of photography preventing the challenge of the new, the process being less important than the outcome and he reads some listeners letters. This episode is dedicated to the memory of photographer Stuart Pilkington.Plus this week, writer, editor and cu…
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A Photographic Life - 305: The Conversation with Bill Shapiro 'Editorial Photography: Part 1'
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In this monthly conversation series Grant Scott speaks with editor, writer and curator of photography Bill Shapiro. In an informal conversation each month Grant and Bill comment on the photographic environment as they see it. This month they reflect on the death of the magazine industry and editorial photography.Bill ShapiroBill Shapiro served as t…
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In episode 304 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed speaking with master printer Bob Tursack about all aspects of photographic printing including photo books, fine art printing, digital, analogue and lithographic. They also discuss photographer expectations, good practice and the photographer/printer relationship.Bob Tursack, is the C…
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In episode 303 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on confusion between post-production and AI, professionalism and creativity and accepting that old labels are no longer relevant.Plus this week, photographer Mark Chapman takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in whi…
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In episode 302 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on selling houses with a smartphone, whether a there is such a thing as a 'real' photograph and more concerning the long form photographic project.Plus this week, photographer Michael Robert Williams takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer th…
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A Photographic Life - 301: The Conversation with Bill Shapiro 'The Long Term Photographic Project'
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In this monthly conversation series Grant Scott speaks with editor, writer and curator of photography Bill Shapiro. In an informal conversation each month Grant and Bill comment on the photographic environment as they see it. This month they reflect on the long-form photographic project.Bill ShapiroBill Shapiro served as the Editor-in-Chief of LIFE…
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In this special 300th Episode UNP Founder and Curator Grant Scott reflects upon the contributors to the podcast over the past five years who have attempted to answer the question 'What Does Photography Mean to Me?' He identifies themes, and attitudes that have been addressed in those contributions and what the majority of photographers find most im…
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In episode 299 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on photographers as brands, stock photography embracing AI, cardboard rats in photographs, and advice on writing for photographers.Plus this week, photographer Morganna Magee takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in…
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In episode 298 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the importance of the 'why' over the 'how' in photography, avoiding the need for a 'style' and why subject matter should be based on your passions and interests.Plus this week, photographer Virginia Turbett takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no…
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In episode 297 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the relationship between photographer, client and publisher, photography as history and he reads some listeners letters!Plus this week, photographer David Vintiner takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which h…
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In this extended episode, editor, writer and curator of photography Bill Shapiro and UNP founder and curator Grant Scott suggest some photographic wishes for 2024 reflecting on AI, documenting conflict, the future of editorial photography, and new social media.Bill ShapiroBill Shapiro served as the Editor-in-Chief of LIFE, the legendary photo magaz…
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In this ‘AI/Copyright’ episode UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed connecting with Nick Dunmur from the Association of Photographers to discuss all aspects of AI and its impact on photography and photographers. You may be surprised and relieved to hear that the future may not be as dark as some believe.Nick Dunmur was born in Oxford,…
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In this special extended episode UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed talking with photographer and festival creator Jeff Dunas about photo festivals, publishing photography, being an entreprenour and the importance of a love for photography.Jeff Dunas was born in 1954 in Los Angeles, California. His work spans five decades and has ap…
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In episode 293 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on listening to experts, and learning from those with experience. He also notes the passing of Ross McDonnell, Larry Fink, Elliott Erwitt and Shane McGowan.Plus this week, photographer Arthur Meyerson takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer t…
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In this monthly conversation series Grant Scott speaks with editor, writer and curator of photography Bill Shapiro. In an informal conversation each month Grant and Bill comment on the photographic environment as they see it. This month they reflect on the mistakes photographers make! That have nothing to do with making photographs!Bill ShapiroBill…
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In episode 291 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on adopting an AI scrape approach to reporting on the latest AI news.Plus this week, photographer Luke Duggleby 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 …
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In episode 290 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on reading the conflict image and its continuing power to inform. Plus this week, photographer Roo Lewis 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?’Ro…
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In episode 289 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the passing of photographer John Sevigny, the fact that you are never too old to learn and how life informs our photography.Plus this week, photographer Robin Weaver takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which…
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In episode 288 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the importance of subject to the photographer whilst knowing why you are making photographs and the issues with photographic hyperbole on social media.Plus this week, photographer Michael J Brennan takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer t…
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A Photographic Life - 287 The Conversation With Bill Shapiro 'Feedback: How to Give and Receive It'
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In this monthly conversation series Grant Scott speaks with editor, writer and curator of photography Bill Shapiro. In an informal conversation each month Grant and Bill comment on the photographic environment as they see it. This month they reflect on the feedback. How to give it, what to expect from it and how to receive it!Bill ShapiroBill Shapi…
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In episode 286 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on themes that those dealing with AI and photography are focusing on and the homogenisation of the photo book.Plus this week, photographer Bill Stephenson takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer’s t…
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In this special episode UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed talking with photographer Marc Wilson about the realities of creating Kick Starter campaigns to support and fund the publishing of personal photographic projects.Born in London and now based in Bath, Marc Wilson studies took him from Sociology to Photography creating images …
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In episode 284 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the photographic documentation of our own lives and how photographers dress!Plus this week, photographer Trish Morrissey 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 Photogr…
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A Photographic Life - 283: The Conversation With Bill Shapiro 'The Photographic Pivot Part Two'
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In this monthly conversation series Grant Scott speaks with editor, writer and curator of photography Bill Shapiro. In an informal conversation each month Grant and Bill comment on the photographic environment as they see it. This month they reflect on the photographic pivot. How to move from one area to another, utilise transferable skills and bui…
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