I was tasked by Education Week director of photography Charlie Borst to find a student in the Baltimore City Public School system to be the face of poverty for a story about how socioeconomic status impacts educational success. Along the way I met homeless family Tameka Harrison and her first-grade son, Jahmal and got to spend a day with them and photograph Jahmal’s School City Spring Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore.
Mar 07, 2012 | Categories: Education Week, Photojournalism, Photos, reportage | Tags: african american, Baltimore, Baltimore City Public School System, Baltimore Photographer, black, City Springs School, community journalism, Education, Education Week, elementary school, homeless, Jahmal Harrison, MATT ROTH, outtakes, photo, Photo essay, photo series, Photos, poverty, Rhonda Richetta, Students, Tameka Harrison | Leave A Comment »
A photo David Donaldson photographed in 2009 for a New York Times story was relicensed for a New York Review of Books story on public school education, titled “How, and How Not, to Improve the Schools.” David Donaldson, a high school teacher in the Teach for America program, with his students at the Maryland Academy of Technology and Health Sciences, Baltimore, December 2009.
Mar 07, 2012 | Categories: For The New York Times, Photojournalism, Photos, The New York Review of Books, What's New With Me? | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore City Public School System, Baltimore City School System, Baltimore Photographer, community journalism, David Donaldson, documentary, Education, MATT ROTH, photo, Photojournalism, Public School, Teach for America, teachers, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times | Leave A Comment »
Nick Borkowicz, (aka Ghostfreehood) the bands Avec, and Attractive and Popular were game for an impromptu “zombie” shoot after their show …at a bar I forgot the name of, Wednesday, July 20, 2005. Nick wanted the photos to use as templates for drawings. That’s why no one
Feb 25, 2012 | Categories: 10AM Update, Friends, Personal Work, Photos | Tags: 10AM Update, Attractive and Popular, Avec, Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, early work, Friends, fun, funny, ghostfreehood, lit, Nick Borkowicz, Nick DiFabbio, zombies | Leave A Comment »
A scary portrait of Nick DiFabbio (aka ghostfreehood).
Feb 24, 2012 | Categories: Friends, Personal Work, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, conceptual, dark, fantasy, Friends, fun, ghostfreehood, lit, MATT ROTH, Nick Borkowicz, Nick DiFabbio, photo, photo series, Photos, portrait, PORTRAITS, Scary Portrait | Leave A Comment »
Portraits of Elizabeth Cline, Author of the Penguin Press book Overdressed: The Shockingly High Price of Cheap Fashion.
Feb 23, 2012 | Categories: Friends, My People n' stuff, outtakes, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: Author, Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, book, dark, Elizabeth Cline, Friends, fun, funny, graphic, lit, MATT ROTH, metal, outtakes, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Price of Cheap Fashion, Penguin Press, photo, Photos, portrait, PORTRAITS, pretty, sword | Leave A Comment »
Baltimore woman Sheontay Smith, 27, is on a waiting list for subsidized child care. She is photographed Tuesday, December 6, 2011 in the Southwest neighborhood of Baltimore “Sowebo” where she works as an inspection scheduler for the Baltimore Housing Authority. Day care for her three-year-old is $520 a month, her second highest monthly expense next [...]
Jan 05, 2012 | Categories: For The New York Times, Photojournalism, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, MATT ROTH, New York Times, outtakes, photo, Photojournalism, Photos | 1 Comment »
I recently realized that I when I listen to music I respond waaaayyy more to the mood a song creates than I do to its lyrics. I always hear how the vocals are sung and never hear what’s being said. Maybe that’s why I like metal? It didn’t take too long for me to understand [...]
Jan 04, 2012 | Categories: Personal Work, Photos, PORTRAITS, self portrait | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, conceptual, graphic, lit, MATT ROTH, photo, photo series, Photos, portrait, PORTRAITS, self portrait | Leave A Comment »
The Baltimore City charter school City Springs has implemented several structural practices such as single gender classrooms and the Restorative Practices pedagogy.
Jan 04, 2012 | Categories: Education Week, Photojournalism, Photos, reportage | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore City School System, Baltimore Photographer, City Springs School, community journalism, Education Week, MATT ROTH, outtakes, photo, Photojournalism, Photos, Public School | 2 Comments »
Making messy portraits of kids …or whoever!
Jan 03, 2012 | Categories: Friends, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, Child Portraiture, Curly Red Design, cute, Friends, fun, funny, Kendall Ludwig, lit, MATT ROTH, Messy Portraits, photo, photo series, Photos, portrait, PORTRAITS | Leave A Comment »
When practicing a new lighting set up turns juvenile!
Dec 01, 2011 | Categories: Personal Work, PORTRAITS, self portrait | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, fun, funny, lit, MATT ROTH, photo, photo series, Photos, portrait, PORTRAITS, self portrait | 1 Comment »
My friend Andrea Wise has a fire juggling brother. So, when I found out I
Dec 01, 2011 | Categories: Friends, Personal Work, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, fire, fire juggling, Friends, lit, MATT ROTH, Matt Wise, photo, photo series, PORTRAITS, pretty | 1 Comment »
The El Mateo! Luchador mask courtesy of the limited edition “Weird Sports” book by Sol Neelman.
Nov 30, 2011 | Categories: Friends, My People n' stuff, Other People Are Awesome, too!, Personal Work, PORTRAITS, self portrait, SPORTS | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, conceptual, Friends, fun, funny, lit, Luchador, MATT ROTH, photo, portrait, self portrait, Why The Hell Not? | Leave A Comment »
What better way to sell aprons than to set stuff on fire, right?
Nov 28, 2011 | Categories: Advertising, Friends, Illustration, My People n' stuff, Personal Work, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: Ad campaign, Advertising, Aprons, Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, Charm City Craft Mafia, City Sparrow, concept, conceptual, Friends, fun, funny, Holiday Heap 2011, Kristen Rigney, lit, MATT ROTH, photo, photo series, Photos, portrait, PORTRAITS, Retro Renovation | 2 Comments »
BOY! Doesn’t this post’s title sound cocky!? All that means is Jen Rynda replaced me at the Patuxent Publishing Company when I quit last December. And In case you’re curious, she’s doing a great job. She’s also putting a fresh new face on the Athletes of the Year photos — which, I suppose if I [...]
Oct 19, 2011 | Categories: Friends, Other People Are Awesome, too!, Personal Work, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, Friends, Jen Rynda, Lastolite TriGrip, lit, MATT ROTH, Nikon, photo, Photos, Pocket Wizard, Pocket Wizard Flex, portrait, PORTRAITS, pretty, run and gun, SB-900, The Patuxent Publishing Co. | Leave A Comment »
“I had to stop telling people I live in Ballston, because they think I’m saying ‘Boston.’ So I just say Arlington,” says the lovely and talented photographer Melissa Golden, who’s now a new home owner, the day before moving day Sunday, September 25, 2011. For this post I wanted to showcase what Melissa’s condo was going [...]
Oct 10, 2011 | Categories: Friends, Personal Work, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: adult, Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, condo, empty, Friends, ginger, glamour, MATT ROTH, Melissa Golden, new home owner, photo, photo series, PORTRAITS, pretty, red hair, Social Portrait | 13 Comments »
Members of the Iverson Mall Walkers walk the upstairs at Iverson Mall in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland Wednesday, September 14, 2011. This was an early shoot (yaaaaawn/streeetch), but
Oct 06, 2011 | Categories: AARP BULLETIN, Photojournalism, Photos | Tags: AARP Bulletin, Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, MATT ROTH, outtakes, photo, Photo essay, photo series, Photojournalism, Photos | 1 Comment »
PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Rickie Fowler made 18 pitching attempts for a blind hole-in-one stunt at the Red Bull Capital Drive in the Georgetown waterfront in Washington DC Saturday, June 11, 2011. Rickie Fowler ultimately pitched one ball, the one he hit in the above photo, in fact, into the hole positioned over [...]
Oct 05, 2011 | Categories: Magazine Work, Photos, Red Bull Photofiles, SPORTS, The Red Bulletin | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, conceptual, Georgetown, golf, MATT ROTH, photo, photo series, Red Bull, Red Bull Photofiles, Rickie Folwer, SPORTS, The Red Bulletin | Leave A Comment »
Urban farmer (and my neighbor) Matt Fouse with his
Sep 23, 2011 | Categories: Friends, Personal Work, PORTRAITS | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, chickens, conceptual, Friends, lit, Matt Fouse, MATT ROTH, photo, portrait, PORTRAITS, Rat Czar, urban farming | Leave A Comment »
So, yeah… there’s another photographer named Matt Roth out there. Professionally, he goes by Matthew Aaron Roth, but to all his friends he’s Matt Roth. Luckily we shoot different subjects. I’m more of a portrait & editorial guy, and he’s an “adventure” photographer. Our only overlap is
Sep 22, 2011 | Categories: Friends, Personal Work, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, Friends, lit, MATT ROTH, Matthew Aaron Roth, photo, Photos, portrait, PORTRAITS | Leave A Comment »
Mychael Wright, a friend of mine, agreed to let me make a few lit portraits of him about a month ago. It was a few days after Hurricane Irene came through and his power was still out. So, I used a portable battery pack. Recently I’ve been trying to make as many
Sep 22, 2011 | Categories: Friends, My People n' stuff, Personal Work, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, conceptual, Friends, learning, lit, MATT ROTH, Mychael Wright, photo, Photos, portrait, PORTRAITS | 2 Comments »
A few months ago I went outside to test a beat up old 24mm lens to see if those HUGE SCRATCHES on the front element would be visible if I took a picture, and that’s when I met Clarence – my neighbor — who I’ve never met before. He was walking down the sidewalk braggin’ to whoever [...]
Aug 24, 2011 | Categories: Personal Work, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, Hampden, MATT ROTH, photo, Photos, portrait | 2 Comments »
These are photos from a shoot held on the Bryn Mawr School campus in Baltimore, MD, Sunday, June 19, 2011 for The Collective’s “aLIVE” show at the Creative Alliance Fri Aug 26, 8pm. This shoot was a lotta fun and it went exactly how I like em’ to go… a little
Aug 23, 2011 | Categories: Dance!, Personal Work, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, conceptual, Dance!, Friends, fun, graphic, lit, MATT ROTH, Modern Dance, photo, photo series, Photos, portrait, PORTRAITS, pretty, The Collective | Leave A Comment »
Yes. Annapolis High School graduating senior Sara Dean, is asking another girl to prom. And no, neither are
Aug 05, 2011 | Categories: Education Week, Photojournalism, Photos | Tags: Annapolis High School, Baltimore, documentary, Education Week, emotion, MATT ROTH, photo, Photojournalism, Photos, Prom, Reportage, Sara Dean | Leave A Comment »
