Brandon Thibodeaux
Brandon Thibodeaux (b. 1981) is a documentary photographer and educator based in Houston, TX. His most well-known body of work, In That Land of Perfect Day, was created over the span of nine years, during which time Thibodeaux traversed a 40-square-mile area in the Mississippi Delta, documenting the rural African American experience and learning the region’s history. In That Land of Perfect Day was published as a monograph in 2017 by Red Hook Editions. In addition to personal projects, Thibodeaux shoots for editorial and commercial clients like AT&T, Shell Oil, TOTALEnergies, Smithsonian Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, ESPN, and Mother Jones.
His work has been collected by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the High Museum of Art (Atlanta); the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans); and the Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego) and Telfair Museums, as well as various private collections. He is a guest instructor with the Santa Fe Photographic and Maine Media Workshops, as well as both the Houston and Los Angeles Centers of Photography.