"A photographer looks at the changing landscapes of the river’s final miles".
"As a teenager and budding photographer in a small town in Upstate New York, Matthew D. White would pore over maps and photography books of warmer places, becoming especially fascinated by the lower Mississippi River. By his first photoshoot for the “End of the Great River” project in 2000, he had envisioned some of the photographs he wanted to take for years: he knew there was a lighthouse at Port Eads, for example, and he had long wanted to capture the view atop it, looking toward South Pass.
White finds the changeable, sometimes remote terrain of the lower Mississippi soothing, despite its mutability; over the nearly twenty years of the project, he’s seen changes from season to season and the longer cycle of land gain and, more often, loss. While the land lasts, White plans to be out there, capturing this underrecorded, imperiled, and unique American landscape. "
Matthew D. White photographs for 64 Parishes April 25, 2022.
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