Photographer

Award winner

Scott was born and raised in Marion, the second of four Goldsmith children, all of whom attended Marion High School: David, Scott, Betsy, and Sarah. Scott’s parents, David A. Goldsmith, M.D., and Chloe Andich Goldsmith, encouraged Scott’s interest in photography by letting him build a darkroom in their bathroom. Scott started his career before he knew it by working for the MHS Cactus yearbook and Survey newspaper under the direction of MHS teacher Larry Lain. Lain and Goldsmith remain friends to this day. At Indiana University, Bloomington, Scott won the prestigious William Randolph Hearst Award for the College Photographer of the Year. The same year, he was named Indiana Photographer of the Year becoming the first student to win that award. Scott studied with renowned photojournalist I. Wilmer Counts at IU. Scott worked with the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo staff at The Courier-Journal in Louisville for seven years before moving to Pittsburgh to begin his private practice in photojournalism. He has photographed feature stories for a wide variety of magazines including: National Geographic, LIFE, TIME, Fortune, People, Sports Illustrated, Politico, Rolling Stone and U.S. News & World Report, where he was a staff photographer with U.S. News & World Report for 10 years. In June 1993 National Geographic published a 23-page photo essay of his work related to songbird population decline. His work has taken him to the jungles of Costa Rica, the swamps of Jamaica, the slums of Haiti, caves, deserts, and several rides on Air Force One with the president. He has worked in 49 of the 50 U.S. states and 19 foreign countries. His work has been exhibited in more than 35 galleries, and his photographs have appeared in more than 50 photography books. Goldsmith has won more than 100 awards for his work, including Addys, Golden Quills, Pictures of the Year and the National Academy of Sciences. His work is featured in the 2018 and 2017 editions of Communications Arts annual. Goldsmith lives in Pittsburgh, Penn., with his wife, Pamela. They have two daughters, Lauren and Allie.