Matt Eich Say Hello to Everybody, OK? [ EPF 2019 FINALIST ] In 2019-2020 I will be commuting from Charlottesville, Virginia to Washington, D.C. via train on a weekly basis. I also intend to walk the train line in intervals, photographing the scenes I encounter on its peripheries. I view the train line as …
Matt Eich I Love You, I’m Leaving [ EPF 2017 – FINALIST ] My introduction to photography was in childhood, as my grandmother was dying of Alzheimer’s disease. The hopelessness of her plight triggered something within me, and when my grandfather handed me a camera, making photographs became a way of stabilizing the insecurity of …
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 intersection of issues that span race, class, joblessness, opportunity, housing, education and segregation. After years of making …
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 understand this country by focusing on specific places, on community and on the issues they embody. My hope was that these examinations of …
[slidepress gallery=’matteich-carrymeohio’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls EPF 2010 Finalist Matt Eich Carry Me Ohio play this essay Once known for its bounty of coal, salt, clay and timber, Southeastern Ohio was stripped of its resources by the mining corporations that thrived from the 1820s to the 1960s. When …
– GRANT RECIPIENTS – The Emerging Photographer Fund 2019 $10,000 “Shima & Shiva” By Azadeh Besharati Shima & Shiva speaks about two twins who suffer from a genetic disorder and are fighting for a happy life in Iran. – The Fujifilm Young Talent Award 2019 $10,000 Sleep Creek By Paul Guilmoth & Dylan Hausthor Sleep Creek manipulates a landscape that is …
The Emerging Photographer Fund 2017 Antoine Bruy Outback Mythologies EPF 2017 WINNER – $10,000 Everything starts about hundred years, in 1915, when the New Colorado Gold Prospecting Syndicate, consisting of a Mr. Jim Hutchison, his 14 years old son William and two other men had been unsuccessfully prospecting for gold out in the middle …
Hey y’all, my name is Matt Eich (@MattEich). I am a 27-year-old independent photographer, husband, and father of two, currently living in Norfolk, Virginia while working on long-form projects around America. This is me with my youngest daughter, Meira, before school and work this morning. One of my struggles as a photographer is the constant …
Emerging Photographer Fund – 2011 Recipient [slidepress gallery=’irinawerning_backtothefuture’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Irina Werning Back to the Future play this essay I love old photos. I know I’m a nosy photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for those …
