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. She is currently a UM Isom Fellow (2023-2025) at the Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies. 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 professor of art, associate chair, and area head of Imaging Arts in the Department of Art & Art History. She serves as an affiliate faculty in the Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Expression at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.