In this special 400th episode UNP founder and curator Grant Scott looks back over the podcast's evolution from idea to reality, from shed to garage and from one man talking into a microphone to live events. Engaging in trans-Atlantic conversations and building an incredible archive of photographers thoughts on photography.

Contributors to the mega mix in order of appearance:

Tom Stoddart

Daniel Meadows

Alys Tomlinson

Ilona Langbroek

Ashleigh Coleman

David Rothenberg

The Guzman

Harry Borden

Fabio Ponzio

Jason Langer

Kenneth Jarecke

Katherine MacDaid

Jill Hannes

Mark Klett

Greg Marinovich

Paul Lowe

Anna Boyiazis

Andrew Jackson

Jeremy Nicholl

Simon Roberts

Yukari Chikura

Polly Alderton

Seamus Murphy

Sirrka Konttinen

Yael Martinez

Venetia Dearden

Derek Ridgers

Dan Burn Forti

David Eustace

Julia Fullerton Batten

JM Golding

Stephen Dupont

Tim Davis

Robert Trachtenberg

Ruth Lauer Manetti

Richard Ansett

Reuben Wu

Pixy Liao

Paul Russell

Mona Kuhn

Melissa Breyer

Buku Sarker

Chris Floyd

Alys Tomlinson

Aaron Turner

AD Coleman

Brian Griffin

Claire Thomas

Cathal McNaughton

Craig Easton

Dafydd Jones

Danna Singer

Ed Kashi

Jim Mortram

Daniel Meadows

David Eustace

Art Streiber

Tom Oldham

Clare Strand

Dr.Grant Scott

After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Scott began to work as a photographer for a number of advertising and editorial clients in 2000. Alongside his photographic career Scott has art directed numerous advertising campaigns, worked as a creative director at Sotheby’s, art directed foto8 magazine, founded his own photographic gallery, edited Professional Photographer magazine and launched his own title for photographers and filmmakers Hungry Eye. He founded the United Nations of Photography in 2012, and is now a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, and a BBC Radio contributor. Scott is the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019), What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020) and Inside Vogue House: One building, seven magazines, sixty years of stories, (Orphans Publishing 2024). His photography has been published in At Home With The Makers of Style (Thames & Hudson 2006) and Crash Happy: A Night at The Bangers (Cafe Royal Books 2012). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was premiered in 2018.

© Grant Scott 2026