A whooping yell comes from the trees, “Hey, Mardi Gras!” a masked man perched on a low branch screams. “Never fear, the Crawfish Bandit is here!” After a final drag on his cigarette he jumps down from the tree and starts to run, diving headfirst into the nearest mud hole. His attempts to uncover crawfish [...]
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03.05.2010 by Matt Eich
Mamou Mardi Gras (Panoramic)
Here are a few frames with the Xpan from Mardi Gras in Mamou. I’m just starting to get into the rhythm of this camera and am slowly falling in love with the way it breaks me out of my formula and challenges forces me to see differently. I’ve still got a long way to go [...]
03.04.2010 by Matt Eich
Mardi Gras: Baton Rouge and New Orleans (Panoramic)
Part of my purpose for this recent road trip to Louisiana was to continue laying the groundwork for a new book project I plan to work on for the next four years. While I am still in the beginning stages of this process I want to begin sharing some work through this outlet so I [...]
03.03.2010 by Luceo Images
Matt Eich one of PDN’s 30
LUCEO would like to congratulate Matt Eich on being named one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers to Watch. After four consecutive years of being nominated for PDN’s annual feature, he is incredibly jazzed to have been included in this year’s collection. The final 30 photographers were chosen from nearly 500 nominated who submitted portfolios for [...]
03.03.2010 by Matt Eich
In My Back Yard: James River Blues (Part III)
Lately I have become concerned that I am projecting my own idyllic perception of the James on the scenes I have encountered thus far in this body of work. All I see when looking at the images is what isn’t there. What they don’t say. They’re so quiet. Too quiet. They aren’t risky enough, they [...]
03.02.2010 by Matt Eich
Mardi Gras Weekend (Baton Rouge and New Orleans)
On Saturday and Sunday we attended vastly different Mardi Gras celebrations in two different cities. The first, in Baton Rouge, was the Spanish Town Mardi Gras. It was early morning and the streets brimmed with people grilling out and drinking beer. It was more of a street party than anything else but was incredibly warm [...]
03.01.2010 by Matt Eich
On the Road: To Louisiana and back
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On February 11 I left Virginia on my way to Louisiana via Atlanta. Over the next ten days I pushed my aging Jeep Cherokee to 250,000 miles, saw some dear friends, met some fascinating people and made a lot of pictures. The night of the 11th I crashed in Atlanta, at David and Kendrick’s pad [...]
In a flux of local assignments, I ended up at the Ted Constant Convocation Center on Old Dominion University’s campus, literally right down the road from our house. It was my second assignment for The Chronicle of Higher Education, the last taking place in Athens, while I was still at student at Ohio University. Assistant [...]
02.18.2010 by Matt Eich
Stephen McCall for The New York Times
On my way up to Richmond to hear Alec Soth speak at Virginia Commonwealth University I received a phone call from Soo-Jeong Kang, a photo editor at The New York Times that I hadn’t worked with previously. She had a quick assignment for me the next day in Virginia Beach and considering how rare it [...]
02.17.2010 by Matt Eich
In My Back Yard: James River Blues (Part II)
In my formative years I recall living on North Shore Drive in Smithfield, Virginia, literally a stone’s throw from the James River. I would wake up early in the morning to walk along the shore, searching for birds and other signs of natural life in the trees by the low-lying swamps. I dreamed of being [...]
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