Talk

MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with photographer, editor, and educator Jeffrey Henson Scales. His photographs have been exhibited at museums throughout the United States and Europe and have appeared in numerous photography magazines, books, and anthologies, as well as in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The City Museum of New York, The George Eastman House, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Weisman Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Museum of Art at Newfields, The Baltimore Museum of Art, and The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Along with being an independent photographer, he is an NYU adjunct professor of Photojournalism, as well as an award-winning New York Times photography editor who has been co-editor of the annual Year in Pictures special section for over fifteen years. He is the author of two books of photographs, of which his most recent book In A Time of Panthers, The Early Photographs is a newly discovered archive of photographs he made as a teenager in Oakland of the emergence of the Black Panther Party in the 60s.

Starting in 2011 and after over 250 lectures, the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration Lecture series continues to feature leading photographers, artists, editors, gallerists, and industry experts. The Spring 2025 i3 Lecture season is curated and hosted by MPS Digital Photography faculty member Julie Grahame. Most past lectures are available on YouTube and Vimeo.