Scott London is a California-based photographer whose work has been widely published in magazines and newspapers, including Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Forbes, Architectural Digest and the New York Times. His photos have also appeared in many books.

Scott is perhaps best known for his images of Burning Man. His book Burning Man: Art on Fire, a collaboration with writer Jennifer Raiser, has been in print for almost a decade. A newly revised and expanded edition was published by Quarto in 2023 (more info here). The book is currently a finalist for two 2024 Indie Book Awards.

He has exhibited his work internationally in galleries and museums, including the Smithsonian Institution’s landmark No Spectators exhibition at the Renwick Gallery, and the Living exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.

Scott’s career got its start in public broadcasting. His radio interviews and documentaries have been heard on NPR stations across the U.S. He has also written for many newspapers and magazines and edited several books.

Scott was born in Washington D.C. At the age of five, his family moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he was raised and educated—and where, as a teenager, he taught himself photography and built his first darkroom. He returned to the U.S. in his mid-20s and eventually landed on the West Coast. It’s been said that America is built on a tilt and everything loose slides to California.