After receiving his MFA in photography from Pratt Institute in 1982, he worked for twenty years as a freelance photographer of art and architecture in New York City. He is currently a professor of art at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania. For the past eleven years, Scruton has been traveling around the country photographing art environments. Numerous venues and publications have featured his photographs, including Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art and Raw Vision.