Scott has worked as a freelance photographer for over fourteen years. He studied at Maidstone Art College and then at Staffordshire University (under the tutelage of the late Mike Berry), and within twelve months of graduating was taking portraits for the Sunday Times Magazine. He then began what was to become an eight-year relationship freelancing for The Guardian, shooting travel and issue-based assignments all over the world, and currently works in music and book publishing in addition to a number of British journals, periodicals and corporate clients.
In his formative years photographers such as William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander and Walker Evans heavily influenced Scott, but it was Robert Frank’s ‘Americans’ that caused him to seriously consider a career behind the lens. More recently he has found inspiration in the works of cinematographers such as Conrad Hall, Roger Deakins and László Kovács as well as the films of Terrence Malik, and continues to take a healthy interest in the work and practices of other practitioners in his field.
He is also fascinated by history and is currently educating himself in the art of Victorian studio photography. Scott’s own background is almost exclusively Scots and Donegal Irish, with a teaspoon of Cornish blood thrown in for good measure. In 2008 he took a Y-chromosome DNA test to discover his true ancient origins and has found he is of pure Celtic stock. He has been something of an amateur genealogist since 2001, and in February 2009 was broadcast on BBC Radio discussing the life of his fourth great grandfather, John Wishart.
Scott has maintained a long-standing fascination for America’s ‘in-between’ places, and in 2001 created Americana Images - an online archive of his North American work taken during the ten years after 1992.
His work is represented by Retna, Millennium Images, Rex Features, Science Photo Library and Wildcard Images.
He is married to ceramic artist Helen Rondell and is based in Kent, where they live with their son and twin daughters.
All images © Scott Wishart, 1995 - 2009
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