BIO
Brooke White is both a practicing artist and an educator who specializes in fine art photography. White has exhibited her photographs and videos nationally and internationally including the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, MASSMoCA and the DiVA Art Fair in New York, Paris and Berlin. Much of her work, both photographic and video, is created while traveling in areas such as East Africa, South East Asia, South America and the deep south of the United States. White’s work analyzes the ways in which disease, tourism, agriculture and politics effect our connection to the landscape. Most recently White has been collaborating with neurologists who specialize in Alzheimer’s disease research to find the relationship between memory loss and our connection to place. White’s work combines cutting edge digital strategies found in the most contemporary photography today with traditional imaging techniques used in black and white photography. Over the years White has received several grants and residencies, which have helped her pursue her artwork in various parts of the world. Most recently she was the recipient of Mississippi Arts Commission grant and a Residency at the Bakery Collective in Westbrook, Maine. As an educator White teaches traditional Black and White photography, digital photography, digital video, alternative photographic processes and large format digital printing at the graduate and undergraduate level. In the classroom White encourages a cross-disciplinary approach to art making that combines traditional analog techniques alongside the newest digital strategies. White is interested in combining practice, concept and context in the classroom by having students engaged in thematically based projects that bring together the past, present and future of lens based image making. |
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