Biography

Jeffrey Scales was born in San Francisco. When he was 11 years old his father, an amateur photographer gave him a Leica camera and has since spent decades as a documentary photographer. His photographs have been exhibited at museums throughout the United States and Europe and have appeared in numerous photography magazines, books and anthologies. His photographs are 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 and The Baltimore Museum of Art. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards including, New York Foundation in Arts, Fellowship, National Endowment for The Arts, exhibition grant, W. Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic Photography, and several international awards for editing projects at The New York Times.

As a working photographer, editor, and educator. His clients have included, numerous record and film companies as well as publications including New York Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, and The New York Times of which he edits, and curates the photography column, "Exposures," as well as co-editing the annual, "Year in Pictures" special section. He has been an adjunct professor at NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, Photography & Imaging department, teaching photojournalist since 2007.

A one-person exhibition of over 90 of his photographs, "Pictures from America" sponsored by The Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, traveled throughout the United States from 1996 to 2001.

His most recent book, "House," documents life in a legendary Harlem barbershop over the course of six years.

It was upon his marriage to writer, Meg Henson, he began to use the name Jeffrey Henson Scales.

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