Artist Statement

I’ve always been attracted to things at the end of the line; the place where one thing ends and something different begins. I have an interest in borders, frontiers; places that might seem obscure on a map but turn out to have greater significance upon closer inspection. I like the feeling of these places and try to convey that in my work. There are places where all the building and tearing up of earth that people do dwindles off and the natural world begins to take over again. I imagine a kind of transition zone between those two places that’s in a state of constant slow change, and that’s where I look for the right image. I get the feeling of being in that “zone” in many places along the Gulf Coast, where I have found the majority of my images.

~Matthew D. White~

Long-term Work:

The End of the Great River – Fine Art documentation of the Lower Mississippi River Delta from Plaquemines Parish, south of Venice, Louisiana to the end of the Mississippi River
South Florida Unseen – Landscapes tracing the limits of urban sprawl and agricultural areas along the Everglades watershed from Belle Glade to Florida Bay.

Exhibits:

2011  Current: The Louisiana Coast – Solo Exhibition, The Hubbell Library, New Orleans, LA
2010 Coastal Visions – Solo Exhibition
2010 Cameron Parish, LA – Solo Exhibition
2010 The Power of Place, 8th Grand Isle Juried Exhibition – Award of Excellence
2009 The End of the Great River, Solo Exhibition – Port of New Orleans
2009 Magical Botanicals, Seventh Grand Isle Juried Exhibition
2008 Elemental/Environmental SPACE – Group Show, New Orleans, LA
2008 The Print Center 82nd Annual International Competition – Winner
2008 Water Consciousness, Sixth Grand Isle Juried Exhibition – Honorable Mention
2007 Vanishing Horizons, Fifth Grand Isle Juried Exhibition – Honorable Mention
2007 Presentation for U.S. State Department Foreign Media Tour of New Orleans, 2nd Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
2006 Nurture/Nature, Fourth Grand Isle Juried Exhibition
2005 Unnecessary Losses, Third Grand Isle Juried Exhibition

Education:

Bachelor of Arts, Berklee College of Music, Boston, 1989
Master of Music, summa cum laude, University of New Orleans, 2006
Self-taught photographer using Ansel Adams’ three-part photography series of books and printing