Scott Houston

Scott Houston is a documentary photographer and filmmaker who's work is concerned
with the cultural, social, and political landscape of contemporary America. His work
has received world wide publication for projects on poverty, teenage access to guns,
incarceration, the culture of consumerism, the decline of American manufacturing,
and many other pertinent issues in contemporary America. After his BFA at NYU’s
Photography and Imaging department he joined the Sygma photo agency and has
worked with, Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, The London Times,
National Geographic, Stern, Spin, Le Monde 2, Der Spiegel, The Open Society,
CNN, PBS, and MTV among others. His work on the drug " Ecstasy, " has been
recognized by The W. Eugene Smith Fund. It has also been exhibited at Perpignan in
France, the Noordelicht gallery in Holland, ICP, the Corcoran gallery of Art in
Washington D.C. and the Empty Quarter in Dubai. He is a graduate of The School of
Visual Art's MFA Photography Video and Related Media program. He
lives in New York City.