Meet Artist Scott Temple

Scott's Story

 

 

Scott Temple is writer, photographer, and videographer. His passion for storytelling is found in multimedia, combining writing and photography. His documentary, At a Stranger's Table, follows the hard life of migrant farmworkers in eastern North Carolina.

He grew up finding the joy of documenting his adventures on the hiking trails. He now resides on the coastal plains of North Carolina. Cyprus trees, big skies, rivers, black-water creeks, beaches and sand dunes are his new terrains. Scott still travels to the mountains, back home, to explore the niches of life found in the hollows! As the old saying goes, "You can take the man out of the mountains, but you can't take the mountains out of the man!"

 

Scott took an untraditional path while in undergraduate school at Appalachian State University where he lived in a teepee on the property of Turtle Island Preserve with Eustace Conway.

While at Turtle Island Preserve, Scott learned to think like water as he dug ditches to maintain trails; think like wind while he secured his wind flaps of his teepee to draw out the winter smoke; think like trees when maintaining his apple groves; think like wood when splitting rails; and, think like rocks when building the outdoor stone oven at Eustace's base camp. Scott continues to take his life-long connection with nature and apply it to documenting the natural world through photography and film.

With an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College, Scott combines his passion for writing with photography of the natural world. He is committed to fostering a relationship with the remaining wild places. The extraordinary happens everywhere; even in the cracks of cement. From mountaintops to sandy beaches, join Scott on his journey to document the zen of life: the satori of the sublime.