Tag: Matt Eich

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 southeastern Ohio. It is a continuation of his work from 2006 to 2012 in the area and will be published in the book “Carry Me Ohio” by Sturm and Drang next year.

September 4, 2015
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 photographs are made with an abundance of affection, curiosity, and integrity, no matter where he is or who he is photographing.

July 25, 2015
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.

June 4, 2015
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

March 13, 2015
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 making documentary images, I have grown frustrated with what photography is, and more interested in what it could be. I started making 6×7 images, a mixture of landscapes, documentary photographs, and most importantly, collaborative portraits. In this work I begin to blend these different representations of place with an emphasis on creating work that is less about my perspective as an outsider, and more about how the people I am photographing wish to be portrayed.

January 20, 2015
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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.

August 4, 2014
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

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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

January 30, 2014
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.

October 23, 2013
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 down a river of information with our eyes to the future and a shrinking awareness of the past.

September 25, 2013
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 bring members of the community together

September 5, 2013
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.”

April 17, 2013
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.

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A while back I had the opportunity to sit down and spend a little time with documentary photographer Matt Eich, talking about his work and how he gets it all to fit together as a photographer and a person. With the recent announcement that he and other founding members, Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks, would be leaving Luceo, I thought it would be a good moment to go and revisit our conversation.

August 25, 2012
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.

March 5, 2012
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.

November 16, 2011
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

October 27, 2011
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

October 25, 2011
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

June 8, 2011
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 of the Year (CPOY) award, and he also co-founded Luceo Images, which is one of the bright stars to emerge in the photography collective world.

Link: Luceo Images’ Matt Eich on How He Started His Photo Business – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter

June 2, 2011
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 me when we were having drinks. And there it was, a piece of machinery so well used that there’s a lot worn silver around the edges and a ding or two. The lens glass was spotless, however.

Link: Does your gear make the picture? – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis

March 28, 2011
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 Baptist Town. I don’t need the GPS anymore to find my way around. Turns are made from memory, the pattern has solidified and it makes me feel more connected to the place.

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

October 15, 2010