Website for Artist Joshua White

When I moved to North Carolina, I was told that the New River is the oldest river in the world. I have always been drawn to the water of a place, and I was intrigued. It turns out that the New is not, in fact, the oldest river in the world. In any event, just the notion that the river is so ancient

There is an immediacy and magic to lumen printing. Salts, precious metal, natural subjects, and sunlight combine to capture the shadows of my local ecological landscape, describing their exquisite forms and structures in minimal detail.

Joshua White is a husband, father, artist, and banjo player. He received his MFA from Arizona State University and lives and works in western North Carolina, where he is an Associate Professor of Art at Appalachian State University. Please click here to download my CV.

Breaking Ground. View fullsize. View fullsize

National Geographic, September 2015, Samples of US and International Versions. Square Magazine, Issue 4.4, December 2013. Don't Take Pictures, Issue 2, Spring 2014

I live and work in Western North Carolina. I am happy to discuss travel, but as I frequently get requests from folks in LA, I want to clarify that I am not this Joshua White, and that he does not make tintypes.

Click here to read the National Geographic article, “Art from an American Backyard,” written by James Estrin of the New York Times. Prints are available for all images in the series, please contact me for more information.

The Drowning World. View fullsize. View fullsize

There's a mass of humanity that is turned under every generation, forgotten in boxes that litter the aisles of antique malls, and estate sales, and auctions. The last members of their families have passed, or aren't around, or are cleaning out their attics. The images that they have left behind, the