Acting a fool… Jumping on a motel bed in West Virginia.
Apr 23, 2012 | Categories: Marketing, Personal Work, Photos, PORTRAITS, self portrait | Tags: Baltimore Photographer, conceptual, cute, focal plane, fp-mode, fun, funny, high-speed sync, Jumping On Beds, lit, MATT ROTH, nikon D700, Nikon SB-900, photo, photo series, Photos, portrait, PORTRAITS, self portrait | Leave A Comment »
Network journalists Molly Palmer, and Lee Cowan sparked a romance during the notorious Balloon Boy coverage back in 2009. Last weekend they got married and I covered it for The New York Times Vows section.
Apr 21, 2012 | Categories: For The New York Times, Photojournalism, Photos, Wedding | Tags: Baltimore Photographer, MATT ROTH, New York Times, NYT's, outtakes, photo, Photo essay, photo series, Photojournalism, Photos, wedding | Leave A Comment »
Baseball Factory Yankee Spring Training Experience at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg College.
Mar 20, 2012 | Categories: Marketing, outtakes, Photos, SPORTS | Tags: adolescents, Baltimore Photographer, Baseball, Baseball Camp, Baseball Factory, BF, boys, lit, Little league, Marketing, MATT ROTH, outtakes, photo, Photos, SPORTS, teens, Under Armour | Leave A Comment »
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 »
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 »
These are from a longer term project I’m working on. All these photos were made
Feb 21, 2012 | Categories: Personal Work, Photos, reportage | Tags: Baltimore Photographer, Florida, Gulf Coast, MATT ROTH, photo, Photo essay, photo series, Photos, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Treasure Island | 1 Comment »
“Hotloading” is Joe Bugleowicz’s photographic memoir of nearly a year driving a tourist bus in Alaska. It’s really good & super quirky. All the photos in the newspaper were made with a film point & shoot & printed by Newspaper Club.
Jan 10, 2012 | Categories: Advertising, Articles, Friends, Other People Are Awesome, too!, Photos | Tags: Baltimore Photographer, bus driver, Friends, fun, Hotloading, Joe Buglewicz, MATT ROTH, photo, Photographer, portrait, PORTRAITS, Promo Book | Leave A Comment »
Over the holidays, I went on a road trip with Mom, her husband, Rick, and Grandmommy from Atlanta down to — get this — Treasure Island, Florida! Yup. Such a place exists. And no. it’s not an amusement park. ha! Can you imagine Grandmommy at an amusement park? hahaha! …we did get her on a [...]
Jan 06, 2012 | Categories: cityscapes, family, landscapes, Personal Work, Photos, Scapes, Travel | Tags: Baltimore Photographer, beach, famcatoin, family, Florida, graphic, landscape, MATT ROTH, mood, photo, Photo essay, photo series, Photos, pretty, vacation | 2 Comments »
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 »
AARP Bulletin DOP Michael Wichita called me up a few months ago — actually, while I was in Denver for Geekfest – needing an in-house mock up made so he could pitch an illustration idea to his bosses for a big story they’re doing on the kind of people who use Social Security. He needed it [...]
Jan 04, 2012 | Categories: AARP BULLETIN, Magazine Work, Photojournalism, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: AARP Bulletin, Baltimore Photographer, Benjamen Rasmussen, Friends, fun, funny, Geekfest2011, lit, Mahala Gaylord, MATT ROTH, outtakes, photo, Photo essay, photo series, PHOTOGRAPHERS, Photos, PORTRAITS | Leave A 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 »
Common Core Standards for Education Week
Dec 13, 2011 | Categories: Education Week, Photojournalism, Photos | Tags: Baltimore Photographer, cute, Education Week, MATT ROTH, outtakes, photo, Photo essay, photo series, Photojournalism, Photos, wonky | Leave A Comment »
Bethesda home organizer and interior designer Sally Carle shows how to destroy toilet germs, while staying green, for a New York Times story.
Dec 08, 2011 | Categories: For The New York Times, Illustration, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: Baltimore Photographer, conceptual, extreme cleaning, fun, funny, Illustration, lit, MATT ROTH, photo, photo series, Photos, portrait, PORTRAITS, Sally Carle, The New York Times | 1 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 »
ABC News Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz sits in her office at the ABC Washington DC Bureau Thursday, October 13, 2011. Martha is a super cool person. When we were setting up the shoot for a New York Times profile, she wanted to know what I was thinking for the shoot. So, I threw [...]
Nov 23, 2011 | Categories: For The New York Times, Photojournalism, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: ABC, Baltimore Photographer, lit, Martha Raddatz, MATT ROTH, News, NYT's, photo, Photojournalism, Photos, portrait, PORTRAITS, Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent | Leave A Comment »
Jason and Jen are a writerly couple. I love this quote from the story: “He used a semicolon correctly; that was reason enough to get a drink with him.”
Nov 22, 2011 | Categories: For The New York Times, Photojournalism, Photos, Wedding | Tags: Baltimore Photographer, documentary, emotion, fun, Jason Feifer, Jen Miller, MATT ROTH, NYT's, photo, photo series, Photojournalism, Photos, Style Section, The New York Times, Vows, Washington D.C., wedding | Leave A Comment »
I noticed this cool-looking night scene walking around George Washington University last Tuesday, November 8, 2011 with Charlie Shoemaker during FotoWeek DC.
Nov 21, 2011 | Categories: cityscapes, Personal Work, Photos, Scapes | Tags: Baltimore Photographer, FotoWeek DC, George Washington University, graphic, MATT ROTH, night, photo, pretty, Washington D.C. | Leave A Comment »
