Scott Reither

Born and raised around Big Sur, California, Scott Reither has achieved international recognition as a fine art landscape photographer with a taste for the dramatic and the transcendental. His long-exposure photographs sensitively record the atmospheric effects, lyrical beauty and emotional revelations that occur through the combination of light, space and time. Captured in evocative locations around the world, Reither’s photographs are expressive evidence of the raw and wondrous truths still to be found in the landscape.

The conspicuous beauty in Scott Reither’s photographs is only the beginning of their alluring appeal to the senses. Reither has the deft ability to show more than what is initially observed. Consciousness matters as much as composition, color or the specific location of each scene. The work is meant as a meditative exercise on purity, on what it means to be present and aware. Reither’s more than 40 individual honors at the International Photography Awards – the Oscars for the camera crowd – certainly prove the value in the way he pays attention. But such recognition is the corollary and not the cause of the work – the reward for Reither is when his photographs move others to emotion and awareness.

Reither came to his career as a fine art photographer by way of his love for exploration. Born and raised in Monterey Bay, Reither happily fell under the spell of Big Sur - the idyllic stretch of the California coast that once inspired Edward Weston in his photographic journey. But kids rarely know the true value of beauty – or golden light - until they get out of their own backyards. Escape is often an entrance point into self-awareness. In his late 20s, Reither set out for an extended ramble through southeast Asia with a camera as an...

2010-2020 Four Seasons at Wailea, Artist-in-Residence
2018 State of Hawaii Art in Public Places - Permanent Collection
2018 Schaefer International Gallery, Maui, HI - Juried Group Show
2017 Schaefer International Gallery, Maui, HI - Juried Group Show
2013 Wailea Beach Resort, Maui, HI - Artist-in-Residence
2010-2013 Christopher Egan Gallery, Artist-in-Residence
2011-2013 Wertheim Contemporary Gallery, Makawao, HI
2010-2011 The Monarch Dubai, Dubai UAE - Featured Artist
2005-2009 Bartram Gallery, La Jolla, CA, Artist-in-Residence

AWARDS:

2018 IPA Awarded in Nature - Landscapes for Dark Coast
2018 IPA Awarded in Nature - Landscapes for Frozen
2018 Hawaii State Foundation on Culture & the Arts - UP!
2017 IPA Awarded in Travel/Tourism - for Torii Gate series
2017 IPA Awarded in Architecture - for Samurai's Gate
2017 IPA Awarded in Nature - Trees for Night Kiawe
2017 IPA Awarded in Night Photography - for Night Kiawe
2015 IPA Awarded in Fine Art - Landscape for UP!
2015 IPA Awarded in Fine Art - Landscape for Silversword
2014 IPA Awarded in Special - Night Photography for Waterdance
2013 IPA Awarded 2nd place in Architecture - House of Infinity
2013 IPA Awarded in Nature - Trees for Painted Forest
2013 IPA Awar...