Wendel White: Photographic Projects

02/11/2026

02/10/2026

During February, explore Black History through a variety of artistic mediums. | Pictured: Wendel White, Atlantic City, NJ from his Schools for the Colored series

In our story, go on location with photographer Wendel White: Photographic Projects to Woodbury, one of the sites he photographed for Schools for the Colored. This project revisits a time before Brown vs. Board of Education, when schools were fully segregated.

Watch here: https://stateoftheartsnj.com/video/wendel-a-white-schools-for-the-colored/

11/06/2025

I started working with photography as a high school student at Montclair High School. The art teacher who introduced me to photography showed a documentary film about the photographer Dorothea Lange, which had a powerful impact on me. There are many ways in which that documentary influence has staye...

08/22/2025

The work of four photographers based in Philadelphia on display until November

08/09/2025

Tonight on NJ PBS at 7:30 pm, go on location with photographer Wendel White to Woodbury, one of the sites he photographed for his series Schools for the Colored. This project revisits a time before Brown vs. Board of Education, when schools were fully segregated.

Photo by Wendel White: Cape May, NJ from his Schools for the Colored series

Stream here: https://stateoftheartsnj.com/video/wendel-a-white-schools-for-the-colored/

New Jersey State Council on the Arts Wendel White: Photographic Projects

06/20/2025

04/07/2025

02/19/2025

Go on location with photographer Wendel White to Woodbury, New Jersey, one of the sites he photographed for his series, Schools for the Colored. This project revisits a time before Brown vs. Board of Education, when schools were fully segregated. Produced by Aubrey J. Kauffman for State of the Arts.

10/22/2024

Brian Arnold recently review the "Manifest: Thirteen Colonies" book for the photo-eye blog.

Radius Books
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Book Review Manifest | Thirteen Colonies Photographs by Wendel A. White Reviewed by Brian Arnold "Thinking about Zora Neale Hurston is...

10/16/2024

In case you missed this conversation with William Williams for the opening of "Manifest: Thirteen Colonies" at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, here is the recording of the event. Thanks to everyone at the Peabody and especially to Professor Williams for his generous remarks, Ilisa Barbash as project curator and my constant guide during the fellowship, Radius Books, Brenda Tindal, Mór Madden, and the Robert Gardner Fellowship.

Wendel A. White, Distinguished Professor of Art, Stockton University; 2021 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, H...