I became familiar with Matt Eich’s work in 2006 when he was named the 61st College Photographer of the Year. Two years later Matt applied for Pause, to Begin with his “Carry Me Ohio” series and was selected as 1 of 15 Pause, to Begin photographers. Matt recently began making a series of photographs titled James River Blues.

A little bit about the work from Matt’s blog post:

“It explores the James River in Virginia, which starts in the mountains and cuts 410 miles through the state before emptying into the Chesapeake Bay. I have so many childhood memories linked to this river that I was instantly drawn to it when we moved back here in June. My eventual goal is to start at the headwaters and take a canoe trip to where it empties into the ocean. For practical reasons I began the project around Smithfield which is about 45 minutes to an hour from where we live in Norfolk.”

Matt pitched the project to a hospital being built near the river and was subsequently commissioned to create 27 images. We recently collaborated on printing his stunning images and chose a paper to Matt’s liking (Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta — the same paper all of my exhibition prints are made on) and a comfortable print size for the images.

Here are a couple installation pictures of the stellar finished framed prints:

Matt Eich is a photojournalist and colleague based in Norfolk, Virginia where he lives with his wife and daughter. Matt is represented by Luceo Images.

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