South Louisiana Photographer to Showcase Work in Grand Isle Exhibit

Matthew White Tells Story of Endangered Coastline

Baton Rouge, La. -- Matthew White, a mural columnist who lives and works in the New Orleans area, has been called to display three photographs in the 6th Annual Grand Isle Juried Exhibition. The "Water Consciousness" exhibit, which runs April 12 through April 20 in the Grand Isle Community Center, will spotlight works apropos the accustomed adorableness and abeyant accident of the island and the surrounding wetlands.

"I accept been documenting Louisiana's different bank mural back 5 years afore Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the coast," explained White. "But while others focused on that confusion afterwards the storm, I saw backbone and airy adorableness alternating the Louisiana shoreline. That's the absolute mural I focus on and the alarming spirit I achievement to back through my photography."

I accept been documenting Louisiana's different bank mural back 5 years afore Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the coast But while others focused on that confusion afterwards the storm, I saw backbone and airy adorableness alternating the Louisiana shoreline. That's the absolute mural I focus on and the alarming spirit I achievement to back through my photography. The bank is a admirable subject, but it agency so abundant added than a appealing picture If Louisiana's bank erodes, it will be a accident for everyone. I achievement that my photographs move humans to both absorb in its adorableness and brainwash themselves on way to bottle this vanishing landscape. The ambition of the exhibition is to accession acquaintance of Louisiana's bank abrasion through an artist's eye and to animate the conception and canning of images of this ability and its dematerialization abode for approaching generations. The three works of White that accept been called are Lake Borgne #3, Blue Lake Pontchartrain, The Rigolets, which even shows afflatus in the bubble captured in the angel taken in Nov. 2007.

"The bank is a admirable subject, but it agency so abundant added than a appealing picture," added White. "If Louisiana's bank erodes, it will be a accident for everyone. I achievement that my photographs move humans to both absorb in its adorableness and brainwash themselves on way to bottle this vanishing landscape."

White hopes his photos of every notable area alternating the absolute Louisiana bank border, will eventually be appear in a book and archived as an absolute collection.

The juror of the exhibition is Bonita Day. A Louisiana native, Day currently lives in New Orleans and accustomed her BFA from Louisiana State University in 1992 and her MFA from Tulane University in 1999. After an awards presentation in Grand Isle on Apirl 20, the display will be apparent from May 31 through Aug. 2, 2008, in Philadelphia and advised by Joel M. Smith, columnist and babysitter of photography and the Princeton University Art Museum.

About Matthew White
Matthew White (www.matthewwhitestudio.com) is a built-in New Yorker who fell in adulation with photography at an aboriginal age. He has lived and formed as a freelance columnist and musician, afterwards accepting a Bachelor's Degree in music from Berklee College of Music in Boston, and a Master's Degree in applesauce studies from the University of New Orleans, a summa cum laude graduate. His plan has been featured in the Grand Isle Juried Art Exhibit and as allotment of a abiding building display for Parks Canada in New Brunswick. White is represented by Big Vision Media (www.bigvisionmedia.com).