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Profile of Ken Scott: Photographer

Winter Barn - The Destitution Road, Dundonnell, Scottish HighlandsTouching the Light features the mountain landscape photography of Sussex photographer Ken Scott, and celebrates the infinite variety and beauty of natural light in the mountains and wild places.

Ken is a mountaineer and self-taught photographer who has walked extensively in Britain, Europe and North America. The driving force behind his photography is a passion for the mountains and the ever-changing quality of mountain light, to which he responds in the moment to produce striking and soulful images.

Place is unimportant in Ken's work; it is more the atmosphere and the intensity of the mountain experience itself that is subject. Ken camps high, away from the artificiality of everyday life, immersing himself in silence, space and light, especially in those magic hours at the beginning and end of the day.

Ken is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and published his first book Photographing Changing Light in 2004. He exhibits primarily using colour transparencies, still his preferred medium in an advancing digital age, and is a member of Steyning Camera Club.

Where indicated, images displayed in the galleries are available for purchase as digital prints. The rights to publish from stock may also be purchased by negotiation.

Current projects include:

  • Mountains of Middle Earth - documenting the mountains of the Mediterranean coasts of Europe (and currently struggling to move on from the delights of Spain ...)
  • Creative Coaching - a unique personal development approach; understanding what is in you that you wish to express through photography, and how photography can reveal you ... in development during 2007
  • TTL Stock Library - a searchable image library specialising in Natural Light in the Landscape ... in development during 2007

CV: Lectures, Exhibitions and Appearances

  • 2008 - Joint Exhibition with Steyning Camera Club, Horsham Museum
  • 2008 - "Extended Views": Focus Group Exhibition, Oxmarket, Chichester
  • 2007 - West Midlands lecture tour
  • 2007 - Joint-exhibition: Brighton Festival Fringe
  • 2007 - RPS Colour Group Conference
  • 2005 - MCPG, Wiltshire
  • 2005 - Joint-exhibition: Brighton Festival Fringe
  • 2005 - BBC Countryfile: competition launch (with Jo Brand)
  • 2005 - Guernsey Eisteddfod
  • 2004 - RPS SE Region - Day to Remember (with Mervyn Taylor and Tony Worobiec)
  • 2004 - RPS Colour Group Conference
  • 2004 - Healing Arts Festival, Brighton
  • 2004 - High Sports Winter Lecture Series, Shrewsbury (billing alongside Mick Fowler, Andy Kirkpatrick and Conrad Anker)
  • 2001 - Flanders Festival, Leuven, Belgium; A live audio-visual collaboration with composer Michael Finnissy, Anouk de Clercq (video) and Ian Pace (piano) on Finnissy's The History of Photography in Sound
  • 2000 - Steyning 2000: Etched bright with sunlight, A live audio-visual collaboration with Michael Finnissy and Nicolas Hodges (piano)

CV: Publications and Productions:

  • 2007 - TTL3 Site Relaunch
  • 2006 - images featured in John Muir Trust Yearbook
  • 2005 - images featured in John Muir Trust Yearbook
  • 2005 - Audio-visual Peaks of Experience
  • 2004 - Photographing Changing Light; Photographers' Institute Press
  • 2004 - images featured in John Muir Trust Yearbook
  • 2002 - TTL2 Site Relaunch
  • 2000 - This website Touching the Light goes live
  • 1997 - Audio-visual Inspirations
  • 1992 - Audio-visual Natural Sculptures
  • 1988 - Audio-visual A Mountain Year