1. An imaging apparatus, comprising: an information acquiring device which acquires information on a photographic scene; a scene recognizing device which recognizes a photography scene by applying the photographic scene to a plurality of predefined scenes from the acquired information; a face detecting device which detects whether a face exists in the photographic scene; and a control device which performs various controls based on a scene recognition result and a face detection result, wherein the scene recognizing device comprises a scene change discriminating device which discriminates whether a scene has changed based on reference information stored in a storage device and the information acquired by the information acquiring device, and wherein the scene recognizing device performs a scene recognition when it is discriminated that the scene has changed.