Scott Walden is a photographer and philosopher based in New York City. Since 1988 he has spent summers in Newfoundland, Canada documenting the physical remnants left behind by postwar attempts at social engineering. Less political than philosophical, Walden’s work explores the potential for words and images to represent the loss of place consequent upon such government-instigated programs.

A selection from Walden's most recent body of work appears above. In 2003 the photographer's book of text and black-and-white images, Places Lost: In Search of Newfoundland’s Resettled Communities, was based upon his 2001 solo exhibition titled Unsettled, that took place at the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador. Throughout the exhibition Unsettled takes, as its subject matter, coastal communities that were abandoned in a postwar attempt to rationalize the Newfoundland economy. Walden’s 2009 exhibition at the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Gallery in Newfoundland, All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus, was accompanied by the publication of a catalogue with a curatorial essay describing how the documented bars and social halls indicate the wrenching changes that have occurred in rural Newfoundland during the past 40 years.

In 2007 Walden was awarded the prestigious Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography by the Canada Council for the Arts. In April 2011 the Christine Price Gallery in Vermont incorporated works by the photographer in a group show, Arcadia Now, and in July the Christina Parker Gallery included Walden’s photographs in Atlanticus. The signature image from the Unsettled series will appear on the cover of a forthcoming CD by The Knights Orchestra. Walden is currently at work on an extended environmental auto-portrait that incorporates people and places from across Newfoundland.