EXHIBITIONS

2019
(Featured Artist) Studio b. Gallery, Newport Beach, CA 
(Featured Artist) Peter’s Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

2018
John Wayne Airport, Solo Exhibition, Orange County, CA 
H Gallery + Studios - Empire of Dirt, Los Angeles, CA 
TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2017 
TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Branner Spangerberg Gallery; Redwood City, CA
Dwell on Design, PRIME Edition; Los Angeles, CA
Newport Beach Art Exhibition, 53rd Annual; Newport Beach, CA
Newport Beach Civic Center; Orange County, CA

AFFILIATIONS

American Photographic Artists (APA-LA); Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA); Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP); Los Angeles, California
California Center for Photographic Art (CCPA); Carmel, California

AWARDS

2018

- Honorable Mention, Landscapes, IPA, "Order and Perspective"
- Honorable Mention, Landscapes, IPA, "Beach Breaks, Study II, Image #1"
- Honorable Mention, Architecture-Historic, IPA, "Still Standing"
- Honorable Mention, Landscapes, IPA, "Pile of Tetrapods"
- Honorable Mention, Single-Shot: Harmony, Professional, IPA, "Seawall at Sunrise"

2017

- First Place, Photography, Newport Beach Art Exhibition, 53rd Annual, "Seawall at Sunrise"
- Honorable Mention, Landscapes, IPA, "Bad Day in 1906"
- Honorable Mention, Landscapes, IPA, "Seaweed Beds"
- Honorable Mention, Nature-Trees, IPA, "Mature Trees"
- Honorable Mention, Landscapes, IPA, "Seawall at Sunrise"
- First Place, Pacific Life Photo Contest, "The Post"

ARTIST STATEMENT

My early childhood was spent traveling with my family on driving trips through small towns in America. Those experiences are engrained in me and helped me appreciate the small observations and photo vignettes that are of interest to me today as a professional photographer. 

I describe my fine art photography as minimalist in approach. Most frequently, the vision begins with simple lines or shadow perspectives as I select the simple subject as the focal point. Sometimes, I will visit a location at different times of the day to capture different moods or alternative shadow lines on the subject. My images will often feature sweeping landscape vistas that are isolating and mysterious to the viewer.

SCOTT AMLING

Scott Amling is a professional landscape photographer who travels throughout North America, Europe and Asia. His photographs capture the unique and obscured subjects and experiences from normal encounters that often go unnoticed. He is inspired by discovering new locations and experiencing the landscape of structures and other natural phenomena (such as seaweed beds ready for harvest at low tide in Japan). Having studied Architecture in college contributes to his ability to bring innovative perspectives and vantage points to his work.

Gradually moving from film and a large format camera to digital, Scott began to study and learn new techniques with premier landscape photographers, including Michael Levin. Over the last several years, he has created his own identifiable style of minimalist images with alluring and calming visuals.

He has won numerous awards including First Place for the "Seawall" at the 53rd Annual Newport Beach Art Exhibition, Civic Center, 2017 (professionally juried). In 2017, he won four Honorable Mentions from the International Photography Awards for his photographs of landscapes and nature and four additional Honorable Mentions in 2018. Throughout 2018, his work was displayed in TAG Gallery in Los Angeles, at Dab Art Gallery/H + Studio Gallery and a solo exhibition at The John Wayne Airport in Orange County, CA. In 2019, one of his images, “Pile of Tetrapods”, was selected for the “Off the Clock” exhibition, sponsored by the American Photographic Artists in Los Angeles, CA (APA-LA). The exhibition includes 100 selections out of 1,300 submissions and curated by W.M. Hunt and on display at the Santa Monica Art Studios through May 11, 2019.

Last year, he traveled to southern England to shoot images of the rainy coastline in January; Molokai/Kauai in April; Amsterdam, Dunkirk and Paris in June; and southern Japan (third trip) in December. He continues to travel the world looking for more mysterious and captivating locations to document.

REPRESENTATION

2019 - Present Dab Art Co., Los Angeles, CA