Tomatoes, from the Breaking Ground series, 2019-present, wet plate collodion tintype

This artist talk will explore Joshua White's diverse photographic practice, focusing on his work documenting a local farm using the historic tintype process. He will also discuss his process of creating physical tintypes from digital NASA images of Mars for his project Further West, other projects that address ideas of place, memory, and ecology, and the connections between his work and the tradition of landscape photography embodied by photographers like Ansel Adams and George Masa. 

About the Artist

Josh White artist photo, courtesy of the artist

Born in southeastern Indiana, award-winning banjo player Joshua White had no idea he wanted to be an artist when he grew up. He can remember running through corn fields and playing with lawn darts, and was nearly arrested for the attempted trafficking of endangered turtles at a young age. He watched his brother shoot a bumblebee with a bb gun (he’s pretty sure it was an accident) and almost got run over by a train after swimming in the Ohio River with his friends, Chris and Timmy. White employs numerous techniques to investigate memory, mortality, narrative, ecology, and place. His work has been published in National Geographic and featured by Wired, Mother Nature Network, and Scientific American. His exhibition record includes numerous solo exhibitions across the US, as well as many national and international juried exhibitions. Joshua teaches photography at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.