Scott Hartvigsen is a Beechworth based photographer with a strong interest in ecology and the environment. Scott has been a professional photographer for the past 20 years, but regards himself as an emerging art photographer, he was recently a finalist in the National Photography Prize.

Scott has photographed in all kinds of conditions, from the heat and smoke of the Victorian bushfires to the frozen prairies of Newfoundland. With a background as a field ecologist and environmental conservationist, he welcomes the challenge of unique, nature-based and outdoor photographic assignments. Scott has documented logging blockades for the Wilderness Society and has been an in-house photographer for the Nature Conservation Trust of NSW.