Jonathan and Angie Scott are award winning authors and internationally renowned wildlife photographers based in Kenya, Africa.
Jonathan Scott was born in London in 1949 and has lived in Kenya since 1977. He has a Bsc Hons degree in Zoology from the Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1987 he was the Overall Winner in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition – the most prestigious event of its kind. Jonathan has Presented numerous wildlife television programs for the BBC and Animal Planet.
Angela Scott was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1953 and spent her childhood in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Jonathan and Angela married in the Masai Mara Game Reserve in 1992 and have proved to be a prolific partnership, collecting material together for their books and traveling around the world as wildlife and travel photographers. In 2002 Angela was the Overall Winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award. Her winning image was selected from more than 18,000 images submitted from 60 countries
They have been honoured as Canon Ambassadors – and members of the SanDisk Elite Team – a small group of world-renowned photographers whose work and ethos has proved an inspiration to others.
They divide their time between their beautiful home in a leafy suburb of Nairobi – with giraffes as their neighbours – and a cottage at Governor’s Camp overlooking the animal speckled plains of the Masai Mara, Africa’s finest wildlife area.
The Mara is the location for many of the popular TV series that Jonathan has presented for the BBC, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Paramount TV and Turner Broadcasting including Big Cat Diary, Elephant Diaries, Big Bear Diary, Dawn to Dusk, Flamingo Watch and Africa Watch.