Wendel A. White is an American photographer, born in 1956 in Newark, New Jersey, who grew up in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He earned a BFA in photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York and an MFA at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the faculty of Stockton University in New Jersey in 1986 and is Distinguished Professor of Art there.
His projects explore African American history through places, landscapes and artifacts, among them Small Towns, Black Lives, Schools for the Colored, Village of Peace, Red Summer and Manifest. Manifest | Thirteen Colonies was published in 2024 by Radius Books with the Peabody Museum at Harvard.
He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003, the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from the Peabody Museum at Harvard and an honorary Doctor of Arts from Oakland University (2023). His work is in collections including the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Duke University and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
