In the second of a new series of monthly conversations, UNP Founder Grant Scott speaks with Director of Photography at the The Telegraph Magazine, Andy Greenacre, about the future of editorial photography, how to get work and and how it to meet a client’s needs.

Andy Greenacre
Greenacre has worked as a picture editor and researcher since 2000 and is the Director of Photography at The Telegraph Magazine and Telegraph Luxury in the UK. He has worked with photographers, young and old, from established names through to recent graduates. He is experienced in commissioning for portraiture, fashion, celebrity, documentary, still life, food, travel and lifestyle and has an extensive contacts book that spans photographers, agents, locations, stylists around the world. As a freelance photo editor, he has worked for a wide variety of publications including The Times Magazine, FT The Business Magazine, ES Magazine, FHM, EMAP Special Projects, and The Times newspaper. Prior to freelancing, Andy worked at Magnum Photos in London between 1994 and 1998. Initially in the archive as a researcher, before moving on to run the editorial department, representing Magnum photographers in the UK and German markets. www.andygreenacre.co.uk

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), 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.

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