Traer Scott is an award winning fine art photographer and author of four books including her newest release Newborn Puppies due out April 1 from Chronicle Books. Her book Shelter Dogs is a national bestseller with over 50,000 copies in print. Her work has been featured in National Geographic, Life, Vogue, People, O and dozens of other national and international publications. Traer is proud to have been the recipient of the 2008 Helen Woodward Humane Award for animal welfare activism and the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts 2010 Photography Fellowship Grant. She is happiest when she is in the ocean, with a dog, doting on her daughter, or behind the lens. Preferably all four. Traer resides in Providence, Rhode Island with her family.
Curriculum Vitae
Education: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Bachelor of
Arts 1997
New England School of Photography, Boston, MA, 1998
Monographs: Newborn Puppies, Hardcover, Chronicle Books 2013
Wild Horses; Endangered Beauty, Hardcover, Merrell
Publishers, October 2008
Street Dogs, Hardcover, Merrell Publishers, September 2007
Shelter Dogs, Hardcover, Merrell Publishers, September 2006
Grant: Rhode Island State Council for the Arts,
Fellowship in Photography, 2010
Exhibitions: Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibit,
Shanghai China: “City” October 2012
Nooderlicht Photofestival, Museum Belvédère, Netherlands:
“Terra Incongnita” October 2012 (group)
Across the Divide; Critical Mass: Newspace Gallery Portland;
Rayko Gallery, San Francisco; PCNW, Seattle; March-May 2011
Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO:
Natural World, December 2010 (group)
Imago Gallery, Warren, Rhode Island:
RISCA 2010 Fellowship Exhibition February 2010 (group)
Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC:
In Our Care, August- November 2009 (group)
The Darkroom, New Orleans: Peek-The Lingerie Show,
March 2009 (group)
HaNNa Gallery, Tokyo: Four Legs and a Soul
October 2008-February 2009 (solo)
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI:
Going to the Dogs, April 2008 (group)
Hpgrp Gallery, New York, NY: Forever Home, July 2007
Denver International Airport: DIA Invitational
(Traveling exhibit of Center For Fine Art Photography)
March 2007
Gail Cahalan Gallery, Providence, RI:
Shelter and Street Dogs; The Wandering Spirit
Photographs by Traer Scott, 2008 (solo)
Upstairs Gallery, Greensboro, NC: Shelter Dogs,
A Heartbeat at My Feet March, 2007 (solo)
Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO:
Positive/Negative 2006 (group)
Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, Providence, RI:
Scenes of Rhode Island, 2005 (group)
MPG, Boston, MA: MPG at One Retrospective, June 1999
MPG, Boston, MA: New Art '99 Juried by Carl Belz.
January 1999.
AS220, Providence, RI: Recent Photographs February 1999.
North Carolina Photographer's Annual Invitational,
Meredith College, Raleigh NC 1997. (group)
Select Interviews (All media):
National Geographic, Photo Journal, April 2012
Popular Photography, Backstory, April 2012
B&W Magazine/Cover Photo and feature, August 2011
British Journal of Photography, December, 2010
British Journal of Photography, March 18, 2009 B&W
Shots Magazine, March 2009, The Hungry Ghost
Camera Arts, October 2008
All Things Equine, NPR, October 2008 (Radio)
Popular Photography, February 2008
Christian Science Monitor, November 2007
Providence Journal, Canine Crusade, February 2007
NPR-National, November 2007 (Radio)
ABC Radio Australia, November 2007 (Radio)
NPR , Greensboro, N.C. April 2007 (Radio)
Life Magazine, August 11 2006
CBS Early Show, August 2006 (TV)
NBC, CBS, ABC Boston and Providence affliates (TV)
Select Additional Publications:
Lenscratch (2010), Elizabeth Avedon Blog (2009),
O Magazine (2008), Photo Icon (2008)
NY Daily News (2007), Christian Science Monitor (2007)
People Magazine (2006), Vogue (2006)
The Bark (2006, 2007, 2010),
Shots Magazine (2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002)
Boston Globe (1999, 2007)
Awards:
Photographer’s Showcase Prize, Critical Mass, 2010
Critical Mass Top 50 2010
Helen Woodward Humane Award, Recipient 2008
USA Book News, Best Books 2007 Award, Finalist