Who is Scott Langley?

"where there is love there is life"- Mahatma Gandhi

Scott Langley, a photojournalist and activist, uses his photographic skills to highlight the injustice within the capital punishment system. Scott Langley started in Texas as a press photographer in many media outlets in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Later he engaged in photojournalism within the states of Massachusetts, North Carolina, and New York and is currently in Ghent, New York. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Sociology and a minor in Psychology from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He studied photography in Southern Methodist University and the New England School of Photography in Boston. His work is based on photographic events such as weddings, engagements, political activism, visual sociology, and photojournalism. Langley was part of his college newspaper and yearbook. His interests in photojournalism began when taking a class on Human Rights during his college career. He says that both his activist work and being a wedding photographer go hand in hand because a part of human rights is love and a big symbol of love is a wedding where people vow to love, protect, and care for each other, forever. 

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                     This is Scott Langley 

Amnesty International Protesting for the reform of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA) to stop using inhumane and illegal methods to interrogate and detain individuals.

What he believes

Langley is an advocate for the abolition of the death penalty, because it violates Human Rights and is not always effective. In his photographs, you observe how he shows different factors that influence the use of death penalty. Those factors are social economic status, race, religion, and other factors that come into play. He did a project called the “Death Penalty Photography Documentary Project” where he took a series of pictures of the most significant moments of the last 24 hours of an inmate facing capital punishment. Langley took pictures of the inmate's last meal, the presence of family members during the execution, the hour of execution, and their last breath time. You would not see the inmate doing this actions, because it is prohibited to take pictures or film an actual execution when it is taking place. Langley also took some shots of the outside the penitentiary; the crowd was divided into two groups. The groups were the people pro and against the death penalty. Within the people that accepted the death penalty was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and some Christians arguing that God hates sin and therefore they have to die. On the other side were the people that want the abolition of the death penalty, which is also the majority group.

Death penalty photography documentary project

what he d,,oes

Langley is member of Amnesty International which is a group that advocates for the spread of Human Rights in all nations that is not present. This group strongly disagrees with the death penalty. Langley also works for different organizations, magazines, news channel, and other median of communications. He has won many awards for his works; you could see his work on t-shirts, calendars, newspaper, TV commercials, magazines, almanacs, book, documentary movies, and theater productions. 


Langley travels to different continents, countries, from Nigeria to Mexico, from Mexico to London, and many other places. You name the place and he will go. 


Langley wants to spread Human Rights all over the world. He does not only show his photographs in exhibitions, but also talks about what he believes and the sociological perspective of his work. He is not just a photographer; he also is educated in sociology and uses photography to convey a message. He can use photography to shed light on important issues that sociologists speak and care about.

Conclusion

Langley is a photojournalist promoting Human Rights and the abolition of the death penalty. He enjoys sharing his point of view to his audience through the use of his camera lenses. He is interested in making this world fair and equal for every human being. He wants equality not only for the people here in North America, but also in all the other continents. He is an international photographer, even though he is settled in Ghent, New York. He is a passionate individual with a hunger for justice.