Scott Joshua Dere has been using a camera since the age of 7 years old, beginning his career using film cameras. At just 13 years old, he landed his first photography job as an assistant for a local wedding studio. For the next 15 years, Scott worked with several local professional photography studios and found different techniques of lighting, posing and visualizing subjects along the way. During this time Scott attended The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan achieving a BFA in the Fine Art of Photography in 2001. Since then Scott Dere went work and opened up a Long Island, New York Studio of his own called Art Photographers. The studio was responsible thousands of weddings, parties, functions and events including a fully equipt studio for fine art portraiture, product photography and more for clients spread across the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut areas every year. In 2015 Scott achieved a Masters of Photography Medal from the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and in 2018 a medal for Master Craftsman of Photography followed.
In the last 25 years, Scott Joshua Dere has had a wide range of clients including celebrities like Phil Collins and Ellen Barkin along with corporate ties with Lamborghini, Maserati, and Toyota. He has also worked side by side with top photographers such as Canon Explorer of Light, Clay Blackmore and Nikon Visionary Doug Gordon at wedding events. In the wilderness Scott has worked with National Geographic, and Sea Legacy's Paul Nicklen in the Great Bear Rain Forest and with Canon Explorer of Light, Charles Glatzer in the Canadian Arctic. Scott has extensive studies on predators in Yellowstone focused on Wolves in Winter that stretches into the Grand Tetons National parks for the last 13 years but specializes in Raptors with a published book on Photographing Birds of Prey. During Winter Scott runs an exclusive photographic workshop in Yellowstone in Winter on Snowmobile for the last 10 years.
Locally, Scott Dere has given presentations for Ted Talks in New York on conservation as well as B&H Optic and the PPA. He has also worked for Canon CPS as a tech, Sigma Corporation as a lens tester and blogger, and Olympus as a field advisor and consultant on OMD products.
