Tag: Matt Eich

  • Getty Images Announces 2015 Grant Winners – The New York Times

    Getty Images Announces 2015 Grant Winners – The New York Times

    Getty Images Announces 2015 Grant Winners Photographers doing personal projects on social issues that often go overlooked received $10,000 each today from the 2015 Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/getty-images-announces-2015-grant-winners/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Matt Eich, 29, received his second Getty grant for his project on poverty, heroin, and the oil and gas industries in…

  • Matt Eich: The States Project: Virginia | LENSCRATCH

    Matt Eich: The States Project: Virginia | LENSCRATCH

    Matt Eich: The States Project: Virginia I first met Matt Eich in 2011 when we were on a three-person panel at the Savannah College of Art and Design. I had long admired his work and accomplishments when I discovered how young he was and that he had been helping support a beautiful family of fou via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2015/07/matt-eich-the-states-project-virginia/ His…

  • Could Crowdfunding Save Photojournalism? | American Photo

    Could Crowdfunding Save Photojournalism? A startup called Viewfind is trying to change all that. A newly launched Kickstarter from the company is trying to raise $25,000 to produce five long-term documentary projects from Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, Ruddy Roye, Beth Nakamura, Benjamin Lowy and Matt Eich.

  • See How One Photographer Uses Instagram to Bring a Community Together | TIME

    Using Instagram to Bring a Community Together Photographer Matt Eich’s long-term project in Greenwood, Miss. uses Instagram via Time: http://time.com/3742996/instagram-matt-eich/ Photographer Matt Eich’s long-term project in Greenwood, Miss., uses Instagram to forge understanding between divided communities

  • matt eich – sin and salvation in baptist town | burn magazine

    Matt Eich – Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town Matt Eich Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town [ EPF 2014 SHORTLIST ] For the last four years I have been drawn to Greenwood, Mississippi like a moth to a flame. Since 2010, I have explored a complex … via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2015/01/matt-eich-sin-and-salvation-in-baptist-town/ After years of…

  • HotShoe

    Matt Eich: The Invisible Yoke Matt Eich is a young American with a passion for photographing the people of the land that he calls home. Having recently exhibited his series, The Invisible Yoke, in New York, Alia Thomas caught up with him to find out more about photographing the American Condition.  

  • A Look Inside the Gritty World of Alligator Hunting in Louisiana

    A Look Inside the Gritty World of Alligator Hunting in Louisiana

    A Look Inside the Gritty World of Alligator Hunting in Louisiana – Feature Shoot Virginian photographer Matt Eich examines the world of Louisiana “gator country,” capturing those who hunt, farm, and live off of the scaly, prehistoric creatures of the deep South. Considered the largest animal in North America, the centuries-old industr via Feature Shoot:…

  • Matt Eich’s Photographs of Greenwood, Fifty Years After Danny Lyon’s Civil-Rights Pictures

    Matt Eich’s Photographs of Greenwood, Fifty Years After Danny Lyon’s Civil-Rights Pictures

    Down South: Greenwood Revisited via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/10/down-south-greenwood-revisited.html#slide_ss_0=1 Last week, the Virginia-based photographer Matt Eich hosted The New Yorker’s Instagram feed from Greenwood, Mississippi, which he has been documenting for the past several years, for a project about the town’s race and class disparity.

  • matt eich – fear & self loathing in america

    Matt Eich – Fear & Self Loathing in America Matt Eich Fear and Self Loathing in America [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT For the last eight years I have catalogued the American experience in pictures, trying to understa… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/09/matt-eich-fear-self-loathing-in-america/ My generation lives in a constantly changing world, swept…

  • Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Matt Eich

    Link: Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography: Matt Eich – British Journal of Photography For the past three years Matt Eich has made the journey to Greenwood, Mississippi, to document the everyday lives of the local people. Using the Getty Editorial Grant he now plans to develop this into a large-scale participatory project that will…

  • NY Times portfolio review Matt Eich

    Link: NY Times portfolio review Matt Eich | Le Journal de la Photographie This essay examines contemporary race and class disparities in the Mississippi Delta town of Greenwood. The project is titled, “Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town.”

  • Behind the Lens with Matt Eich

    Behind the Lens with Matt Eich

    Behind the Lens with Matt Eich – The Photo Brigade In this edition of “Behind the Lens”, Alex Federowicz interviews documentary photographer Matt Eich after his recent decision to leave Luceo Images, a collective he co-founded. via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2012/08/behind-the-lens-with-matt-eich/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThePhotoBrigade+%28The+Photo+Brigade%29 A while back I had the opportunity to sit down and spend a little…

  • Eich receives ShootQ Grant

    Link: Luceo Images LUCEO member Matt Eich has received a $12,000 grant from ShootQ/Pictage for his ongoing project “Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town.” These images were part of his original application, submitted in August of 2010. 

  • NPPA Names Short Grants Program Winners

    NPPA The 2011 Short Grants winners are Victor J. Blue, Gabriela Bulisova, Mary F. Calvert, Matt Eich, and Mark Ovaska.

  • New Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town, May 2011

    Matt Eich, LUCEO: In May of 2011 I was able to return to Baptist Town thanks to the generous support of 103 backers as one of the first projects successfully funded via the crowdfunding platform Emphas.is

  • A Conversation with Matt Eich

    Conscientious Extended: Still in his mid-twenties, Matt Eich has an impressive list of achievements under his belt already. I had a general sense of curiosity about his work, and I figured the best way to learn more about it – and the person behind the camera – was to ask some questions

  • Matt Eich wins PDN Curator Award

    Matt Eich’s “Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town” series wins the Photo Essay/Reportage category of the PDN Curator Awards, Link: Matt Eich wins PDN Curator Award | Luceo Images

  • Luceo Images' Matt Eich on How He Started His Photo Business

    Matt Eich was studying photography in college when he and his girlfriend had a baby at 21 years of age. As you can imagine, this forced him to be much more deliberate about growing his photography business and he started freelancing while in college. His vision as a photographer led him the 2006 College Photographer…

  • Does your gear make the picture?

    This thought occurred to me most recently when Matt Eich was in Portland for the opening of a showing of his pictures at Blue Sky Gallery. Matt was carrying his camera, a Canon 5D Mark II with a 35 mm f1.4, as he almost always does. He set it on the table in front of…

  • In My Back Yard: Dispatches from Baptist Town | Luceo Images

    by Matt Eich September 23: A few minutes shy of 9PM I arrive in Greenwood and check into the Best Western. After dropping my stuff I jump in the car and roll over to the Burger King, one of the few places still serving food, and get two cheeseburgers, which I eat while driving to…