In this special 400th episode UNP founder and curator Grant Scott looks back over the podcast’s evolution from idea to reality, from shed to garage and from one man talking into a microphone to live events. Engaging in trans-Atlantic conversations and building an incredible archive of photographers thoughts on photography.

Mentioned in this episode:
Episode 1 https://unitednationsofphotography.com/2018/05/02/podcast-a-photographic-life-episode-1/
Those who have contributed: https://unitednationsofphotography.com/a-photographic-life-podcast/
Colin Jones
Mik Critchlow
Brian Griffin
John Sevigny
Ross McDonnell
Tom Stoddart
Stuart Pilkington
Paul Lowe
Brian Duffy
Mary Ellen Mark
Jane Bown

Contributors to the mega mix in order of appearance:
Tom Stoddart
Daniel Meadows
Alys Tomlinson
Ilona Langbroek
Ashleigh Coleman
David Rothenberg
The Guzman
Harry Borden
Fabio Ponzio
Jason Langer
Kenneth Jarecke
Katherine MacDaid
Jill Hannes
Mark Klett
Greg Marinovich
Paul Lowe
Anna Boyiazis
Andrew Jackson
Jeremy Nicholl
Simon Roberts
Yukari Chikura
Polly Alderton
Seamus Murphy
Sirrka Konttinen
Yael Martinez
Venetia Dearden
Derek Ridgers
Dan Burn Forti
David Eustace
Julia Fullerton Batten
JM Golding
Stephen Dupont
Tim Davis
Robert Trachtenberg
Ruth Lauer Manetti
Richard Ansett
Reuben Wu
Pixy Liao
Paul Russell
Mona Kuhn
Melissa Breyer
Buku Sarker
Chris Floyd
Alys Tomlinson
Aaron Turner
AD Coleman
Brian Griffin
Claire Thomas
Cathal McNaughton
Craig Easton
Dafydd Jones
Danna Singer
Ed Kashi
Jim Mortram
Daniel Meadows
David Eustace
Art Streiber
Tom Oldham
Clare Strand

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 foto8 magazine, 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 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), What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020) and Inside Vogue House: One building, seven magazines, sixty years of stories, (Orphans Publishing 2024). 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.

Image: Tony Hancock in the Hancock’s Half Hour episode The Radio Ham.

© Grant Scott 2026