In episode 5 of this new series of podcasts UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is back in his shed and pondering on how family members can influence the decision to engage with photography, the use of crowd funding to support a business and the re-surgence of alternative process’s and pictorialism within photography.
In this episode Grant mentions his article concerning Instagram acting as the gateway to photography for young photographers, which can be read here https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/is-instagram-the-new-gateway-to-photography-a74485eb10a1
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Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer in Professional Photography at the University of Gloucestershire, 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 next book #New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in January 2019.
His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay will be screened across the UK and the US in 2018.
You can follow Grant on Twitter and on Instagram @UNofPhoto.
Music by Laura Ritchie from the soundtrack to Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay www.donotbendfilm.com
© Grant Scott 2018