Kieran E. Scott began his photographic career in London in the late 1980s. With the guidance of acclaimed food and travel photographer Anthony Blake Scott started supplying Blake with photographs for his London based photo library,
In 1990 he started working with magazines in New Zealand and Australia, including groundbreaking Australian Vogue Entertaining + Travel and New Zealand’s leading food and wine title, Cuisine.
New Zealand’s pioneer of documentary based Food, wine and travel photography, his work was soon picked up by premium magazines in the US and Europe and he began shooting documentary-style features of his own design, combining portraits, still life and landscapes. Over the past thirty years he has had a regular working relationship with some of the world’s leading publishers and creatives. During this time he has been commissioned to produce photographs for more than forty books and hundreds of advertising campaigns and design projects.
My approach has always been to treat all my subjects with the same visual intent - each subject speaks to me in a different way stylistically but the intent remains the same, that is, to produce honest, candid, believable images that inspire and install confidence in the viewer.
Commercial Clients
Whittakers, Clinicians, Woolworths, Sealord, Swisse, Air NZ, Fonterra, Fletcher Living, Oyster Bay Wine, Barossa Valley Wines, Anchor, Ziwi, Silverfern Farms, Cloudy Bay Wines, Fuel Coffee, Supreme Coffee, Goodman Fielder, Heinz Watties, Alliance Group, FirstLight, Kapiti, Whitestone, Moana NZ, Bellamys, Saper Makers and Growers, Sanford Fishery, TipTop, Tourism NZ, NZ Trade and Enterprise, Menulog, Hilton Group, Scenic Hotels,
Editorial
Cuisine Magazine, Vogue Entertaining And Travel, Vogue Living, US Travel and Leisure, Food and Wine, Departures, Conde Nast Traveller, Vogue (Russia, Singapore, UK, Hong Kong), Inside Out, Delicious Magazine, Country Style, Gourmet Traveller, Time, Bulletin, House and Garden, US Ski magazine, Mens Health, Geo, National Geographic Traveller, British Airways Inflight, Qantas Inflight, Air NZ Inflight.
Books
The Recipe
200 Women
Go Fish with Al Brown
Stoked with Al Brown
Depot with Al Brown
Cut with Josh Emett
BBQ with Josh Emett,
The Engineroom Cookbook.
309
Paradise
Apetite
Wanaka: 2011 Special proiect for Relais & Châteaux The Lodge at Whare Kea Wanaka.
Two year project capturing the Lodge, People, Cuisine and Landscape of one of New Zealand most beautiful locations.
The demands of this assignment included: Food, Architecture, Portrait,
Landscape photography, Alpine Skiing, Aerial photography, Mountain and Alpine work.
The resulting 330 page book was short listed for best Photography at the 2012 Gourmand World book awards.
Also books with: Chelsea Winter, Nadia Lim, Simon Gault, Laurie Black, Ray McVinnie, Cuisine Magazine and others.
Personal Projects:
The Landing. 2020 Commission to produce artworks for the Britomart Hotel suites
DOT. 2020. Illustrated children’s book.
Census. 2019 to present. Ongoing long form domestic essay.
PANdemIC Buying. 2020. Covid19 Lockdown Photoessay and Journal entry (website based)
The Recipe: 2018/2019 Book. 400 recipes from 150 of the worlds greats chefs and cooks. Original colour photography, 3 editions. International publication by Rizzoli. In association with B&R, Edited by Josh Emett.
200 Women: 2016/2017 Book, exhibition Pen and Brush Gallery Flat Iron District NYC 2018 and Munich Germany 2018, website and resource, Blackwell & Ruth. Long form portrait and audio recording series. Publication October 2017 http://www.twohundredwomen.com
309: 2015 Long form documentary. The life of a prime Angus steer (Tag 309) from birth to the restaurant table.
Shelter: 2013 Portfolio. Black and white photographs and audio recordings of homeless and disadvantaged mothers and their children for The Te Puawaitanga ki Otautahi Trust to present to Government departments post Christchurch earthquake.
Fragment of Truth: 2010 Exhibition, FHE Galleries. Large scale prints kept in public (Wallace Trust) and private collections.
Inside a Fish: 2009 Limited edition portfolio and exhibition (Edition of 20). Coinciding with the launch of Chef Al Brown’s book, Go Fish. Photography by Kieran E. Scott.
Paradise: 2004 Book, Random House. Personal journal of travel in NZ.
Black Box Recorder: 2002 Prints. Reflection on my disengagement from religion.
298-898: 2000 Monograph/ Portfolio. Martin Parr Workshop.
My photography has also been recognised by:
Cathy Pacific Travel Photography Awards
New Zealand Post Book Awards
Gourmand World Cookbook Award
IACP Book Awards
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