Photographing in Northern Mississippi. 2020
Brooke White is both a practicing artist and educator specializing in lens-based photographic art. As an artist White utilizes an approach to image-making that incorporates analog, digital, and historical photographic strategies. For the past twenty years, White has made work about the landscape, nature, and our response to place.
White’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA and is represented by Mamia Bretesche Gallery, Arles & Paris, France. White has received multiple Mississippi Artist Fellowships and was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in India in 2012. Her work has been published in Give and Take: Motherhood and the Creative Process, Aint Bad Magazine, Southern Cultures SNAPSHOT: CLIMATE, Southern Register, Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photographs from the Do Good Collection, and the Oxford American.
White is Director and Professor in the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She lives with her family in Champaign, IL.