In this week’s episode photographer, Timothy White takes on our ‘Proust Photo Quiz’…

The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust. Proust answered the questionnaire in a confession album, a form of parlour game popular at the end of the 1890s. The album, titled An Album to Record Thoughts, Feelings, etc.was found in 1924 and published in the French literary journal Les Cahiers du Mois. Our ‘Proust Photo Quiz’ is an adaption of the original text.

Timothy White
Timothy White is an award-winning photographer and creative director, who has photographed international celebrities across the industries of Hollywood, Music, Advertising and Fashion to for over four decades. He was brought up in Fort Lee, New Jersey, as the youngest of three children. His father was a financial controller for the Coast Guard, and his mother was a housewife. White received a diploma from Rhode Island School of Design in 1979 and moved to New York City, where he began a career in photography by assisting a fashion and music photographer. He initially focused on shooting portraits for young musicians, aspiring models and actors, and made forty trips to South America over the course of four years on travel assignments. Based on his South American work, he won an assignment at Rolling Stone to photograph Yoko Ono. White has contributed to the covers of magazines such as Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and Esquire, as well as movie posters for Hollywood’s studios. His work has also been seen on album covers for musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, and Jon Bon Jovi. In 2000 with a friend, White purchased the entire town of Amboy, California, and used it for photoshoots and to host movie companies. He also sold gasoline, food, and Route 66 souvenirs at Roy’s Motel and Café. However, they relinquished control and returned ownership of the property, when it went into foreclosure in 2005. White relocated his studio from New York to Los Angeles in 2013 and oversaw the opening of the Morrison Hotel Gallery’s West Hollywood outpost located within the Sunset Marquis Hotel, and later became a part owner. The gallery represents 90 photographers and features photography of rock legends. White has been awarded the Lucie Award for International Photographer of the Year, American Photo magazine’s Most Important People in Photography, and an induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. His memoir Life Through My Lens was published in 2026 with an accompanying monograph with the same title. https://timothywhite.com

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 foto8magazine, 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), and What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020). 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.

© Grant Scott 2026

Image: Timothy White by Mark Krajnak