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The Art of Documentary Photography: Matt McClain

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The photographers we are featuring over the next few days are exceptional documentary photographers and photojournalists. What really stands out is their ability to capture reality and translate it into something poetic and powerful. They are successful because of their extraordinary powers of perception. They often work under the toughest of conditions and are forced

Interpreting tragedy: Photographing the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting - The Washington Post

Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Perspective | Interpreting tragedy: Photographing the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting

The Washington Post’s Matt McClain photographs life on the Strip after the shooting in downtown Las Vegas.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/10/11/interpreting-tragedy-photographing-the-aftermath-of-the-las-vegas-shooting/

According to the Gun Violence Archive, last week’s mass shooting in Las Vegas was the 278th so far this year. For Washington Post photographer Matt McClain, it was the fifth of his career.

Matt McClain photographs the county fair in Missouri - The Washington Post

Tue, 05 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Perspective | Stepping away from the national stage, a photographer returns to Midwest roots

Washington Post photographer Matt McClain goes back to his roots to photograph a small Midwestern town’s county fair.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/09/05/stepping-away-from-the-national-stage-a-photographer-returns-to-midwest-roots/

Washington Post staff photographer Matt McClain often finds himself photographing some of the biggest players in politics. Earlier this year, he was in Trump Tower in New York making portraits of President Trump, and he photographed the high-profile James B. Comey testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. But a recent assignment to a rural county fair in the Midwest was something of a homecoming for McClain. He grew up in a log house on a gravel road near a state forest about an hour south of Indianapolis. McClain jumped on a flight at Reagan National Airport just outside Washington to St. Louis, then drove three hours to Kahoka, Mo., to spend four days at the Clark County Fair — about as rural and middle America as one can get.

Scripps Howard Foundation: What's New

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

PHOTOJOURNALISM Matt McClain of the Rocky Mountain News in Denver receives $10,000 and a trophy for his portfolio of complex and memorable images, which chronicled the story of a town devastated by a tornado and helped make Colorado’s energy rush real to readers.

Finalists: Sam Dean, The Roanoke (Va.) Times, and John Moore, Getty Images

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