Scott Mead

Scott Mead was born in Washington, DC, in 1954, and attended high school outside Boston and universities in the US and UK. He spent 22 years in investment banking in New York and London, leaving in 2003, and is now a fine art photographer, philanthropist and advisor.

Scott Mead began seriously photographing at around the age of 13 when he received an old camera which had belonged to his grandfather. He continued his photographic work through out high school and college, studying with and inspired by Emmet Gowin, William Eggleston and Minor White in the mid-1970s, prior to his banking career.

In September 2010 his solo exhibition, “Looking Back: Pictures from the Attic” took place at Hamiltons Gallery, London to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. His work has sold at auction in the UK and USA and he is currently working on a commission for the Addison Gallery of American Art. Two of his photographs, “Looking Back” and “Untitled” have been selected to be exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts’ (London) Summer Exhibition in 2011.

He has spent substantial time in Asia and moved to London in 1987, where he lives with his family and frequently travels to the US.