Photographers
SCOTT FRANCES
Scott was born to a NYC home filled with mid-century furniture, two older brothers, a cat, and a lot of art on the walls and books on the shelves. His father was a creative director at an advertising agency, his mother an editor for decorating magazines. When he wasn’t playing basketball he was mostly drawing and painting, often trying to copy Picasso’s. “Looking back I can see that this environment presaged my path into photography.” After completing his studies in journalism and art history at Northwestern University, he returned to NYC to work under the auspices of the legendary architectural photographer Ezra Stoller. It was during this time that he began to document the work of the great American modernist architect Richard Meier, a collaboration that spans three decades
The focus of his subject matter has always been rooted in architecture and the decorative arts, but as his work has evolved he had incorporated people and animals into images. He had become more interested in the atmosphere of the spaces he shoot, certainly their volume and quality of the available light, but also the touch, sound and smell, the mood. He never supplement the lighting, instead he shoot multiple exposures, and in photoshop he layer these exposures together to render an image that best captures the sensory experiences of being in the environment. “My journalistic instinct is to clearly and concisely tell a story.” The compositions and narrative themes in his work speak to recurrent threads found throughout art history. The synthesis of all of this is in the images you see here.
