A Photographic Life - 307: Plus Xavi Bou

In episode 306 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the royal family and image manipulation, why you should undertake an MA in photography and he reads a listener's email! Plus this week, photographer Xavi Bou takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer’s the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?’ Xavi Bou was born in Barcelona in 1979. He became interested in natural sciences at a young age, during walks with his grandfather in the wetlands of the Llobregat Delta and graduated in Geology from the University of Barcelona before completing his studies in photography. Bou dedicated fifteen years to advertising and fashion photography, after which, he focused on his true passion of nature. His project, Ornithographies, started in 2015. After being showcased in numerous exhibitions around the world and widely featured in numerous international publications, it was published in book form by Lynx Edicions. Today, Bou has multiple projects in progress that explore multiple creative formats and outcomes all attempting to raise environmental awareness. https://xavibou.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. Scott’s next book Inside Vogue House: One building, seven magazines, sixty years of stories, Orphans Publishing, is now on pre-sale. © Grant Scott 2024