A Photographic Life - 145: Plus Mark Klett

In episode 145 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering the death of editorial integrity, academic photography book publishing and the need to create a photographic print. Plus this week photographer Mark Klett 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?’ Arizona based Mark Klett studied Geology at St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY before completing his M.F.A. in Photography at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Klett states that he is interested in making works that respond to historic images; creating projects that explore relationships between time, change and perception; and exploring the language of photographic media through technology. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Japan/US Friendship Commission. Klett's work has been exhibited and published in the United States and internationally for over thirty-five years, and is held in over eighty museum collections worldwide. He is the author/co-author of fifteen books and he lives in Tempe, Arizona where he is Regents’ Professor of Art at Arizona State University. www.markklettphotography.com Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, and 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). His book What Does Photography Mean to You? including 89 photographers who have contributed to the A Photographic Life podcast is on sale now £9.99 https://bluecoatpress.co.uk/product/what-does-photography-mean-to-you/ © Grant Scott 2021