(Note: I photographed this back in May, 2012) Most of my Education Week work a bit “inside baseball” — which makes it inherently interesting. Education Week is the newspaper of record for public schools, grade K-12 in the United States. Their audience is smart and specific. Stories about policy and programs are the norms. Common [...]
Feb 11, 2013 | Categories: 10AM Update, Education Week, Photojournalism, Photos | Tags: 10AM Update, Baltimore, Baltimore City School System, Baltimore Photographer, BCPSS, charter school, City Neighbors School in Hamilton, community journalism, documentary, Education Week, high school, learning, MATT ROTH, outtakes, photo, photo series, Photojournalism, Photos, Public School | Leave A Comment »
I got to hang out at a library all day, AND IT WAS AWESOME!!! The Goucher College Athenaeum is more than just a library, it’s designed to be a social hub for the students at the small liberal arts college nestled right off I-695 in Towson, Maryland. First of all, this place is gorgeous! …a [...]
Feb 05, 2013 | Categories: Photojournalism, Photos, The Chronicle of Higher Education | Tags: Athenaeum, Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, Chronicle of Higher, Goucher College, library, MATT ROTH, outtakes, photo, photo series, Photos | Leave A Comment »
Go Ravens! …is a phrase I never thought I’d utter when I lived in Atlanta. Not that I’d be yelling Go Falcons, either. I’ve never been a football fan. Baseball all the way, baby! In fact I really hated football when I was at that young, obtuse, preteen age. But working at Patuxent for 6 [...]
Feb 03, 2013 | Categories: ESPN The Magazine, For The New York Times, Friends, Photos, PORTRAITS, SPORTS, Sports Portraits | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Ravens, Cam Cameron, Chad Unitas, cornhole, ESPN, Fans, Football, Michael Oher, Michael Rubenstein, New York Time, NFL, outtakes, photo, Photojournalism, PORTRAITS, Ray Lewis, Sam Koch, SPORTS, Super Bowl | Leave A Comment »
Photos for the New York Times’ Style Section of DC “politico hipster” nightlife in the district’s cool new neighborhood, H Street, NE.
Jan 19, 2013 | Categories: For The New York Times, Photojournalism, Photos | Tags: Baltimore Photographer, DC, fun, funny, granville moore's, H Street Country Club, H Street NE, Hipsters, MATT ROTH, mini-golf, outtakes, photo, photo series, Photojournalism, Photos, Sticky Rice, The New York Times, young people | Leave A Comment »
Instead of Paying Tom McCarthy by check for assisting me with an ESPN shoot, I showered him in cash money! Makin’ it Rain!
Dec 22, 2012 | Categories: ESPN The Magazine, Friends, Marketing, My People n' stuff, Personal Work, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, cigar, conceptual, five dollar bills, Friends, fun, funny, lit, Makin it rain, MATT ROTH, money, photo, photo series, photography, Photos, portrait, PORTRAITS, ridiculous, smoke, suit, Tom McCarthy Jr, toy helicopter, US Currency | Leave A Comment »
Photo of Baltimore from The Bolt Bus’s route to NYC. …plus a conversation about class, socioeconomic status and race.
Jul 28, 2012 | Categories: Personal Work, Photos | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, Bolt Bus, MATT ROTH, passengeering, photo, Photo essay, street photography | Leave A Comment »
A conceptual shoot highlighting Tygarts Valley Middle schoolers in West Virginia making video games rather than playing them, for Education Week.
Jun 13, 2012 | Categories: Education Week, Photojournalism, Photos, PORTRAITS | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, conceptual, Education Week, lit, MATT ROTH, outtakes, photo, Photo essay, photo series, Photojournalism, Photos, portrait, PORTRAITS | Leave A Comment »
Portraits and photos of Michael Phelps Working out from 2009. The 2012 London Olympics will be his last competition before retiring as a world class swimmer.
Jun 01, 2012 | Categories: 10AM Update, For The New York Times, Photojournalism, Photos | Tags: 10AM Update, Athletes, Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, Celebrities, For The New York Times, lit, MATT ROTH, Michael Phelps, Olympians, outtakes, photo, photo series, Photojournalism, Photos, portrait, PORTRAITS, SPORTS, Swimming, The New York Times | Leave A Comment »
Maryland Deathfest X is full of sweaty, crazy, sweethearts!
May 26, 2012 | Categories: Personal Work, Photojournalism, Photos | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Photographer, Deathfest, fest, fun, MATT ROTH, metal, music, photo, photo series, Photojournalism, Photos | 1 Comment »
An eerie bowl of fruit. Plus how I lit it.
May 25, 2012 | Categories: Articles, Food photography, How-to, Personal Work, Photos | Tags: Baltimore Photographer, bowl of fruit, cliche, conceptual, food, graphic, lit, MATT ROTH, personal work, photo, pretty | Leave A Comment »
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 »
