Matthew Hinton

Matthew Hinton is a New Orleans area freelance photographer whose work has been recognized by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Best of Photojournalism Awards in 2014 and 2016, and by numerous awards from the Press Club of New Orleans, including the Hal Ledet President's Print Photography Award, the highest honor the Press Club can bestow upon a photographer.
Matthew Hinton has previously been a staff photographer at both of the daily newspapers in New Orleans. His work has appeared nationally and internationally through freelance work with the Associated Press and AFP, Agence France-Presse.

PHOTOS: Despite near cancellation, Krewe of Boo rolls through the French Quarter

By Matthew Hinton / October 21, 2019

The festive Krewe of Boo was given the all-clear to parade Saturday night.

PHOTOS: Crane implosion at Hard Rock Hotel collapse site

By Matthew Hinton / October 21, 2019

Authorities said their next mission is to recover the bodies of two victims still inside the building before it is demolished.

PICS: Feeling Grate: 2019 Mac n’ Cheese Fest

By Matthew Hinton / October 14, 2019

The Third Annual Mac n’ Cheese Fest was held Saturday October 12, 2019, in Louis Armstrong Park.

PICS: Zion Williamson makes his home debut at the Smoothie King Center

By Matthew Hinton / October 14, 2019

The Pelicans pulled off a close win, with just one point over the Utah Jazz, 127-128.

‘On to New Orleans, Freedom or Death’: More than 500 to march to reenact 1811 slave revolt

By Matthew Hinton / October 7, 2019

With flags flying and chants of “On to New Orleans, Freedom or Death,” marching in tandem to the sound of African drumbeats, a visual artist plans to lead more than 500 reenactors of the 1811 German Coast Slave Uprising from LaPlace to Kenner.

PICS: Guten Tag! Celebrating Oktoberfest in the Crescent City

By Matthew Hinton / October 7, 2019

‘Hold my beer,’ is easy to say but harder to hold for a long time when taking part in the Beer Stein Holding Contest or #Masskrugstemmen at Oktoberfest 2019 at the Deutsches Haus in the Bayou St. John neighborhood in New Orleans Friday, Oct. 4, 2019.

Behind Dem Bones: the punny skeleton house on St. Charles Avenue

By Matthew Hinton / October 2, 2019

The display can be seen at the mansion from the first week of October through Halloween, and Berger says her grandchildren help her come up with some of the jokes.

PHOTOS: Stormin’ of the Sazerac’s 70th Anniversary

By Matthew Hinton / September 23, 2019

The Sazerac bar excluded women except on Mardi Gras until September 26, 1949 when women ‘stormed the bar.’ The event was celebrated first with a luncheon and fashion show at the Blue Room before the group of women second lined to the Sazerac bar with music by the Twisty River Band.

New Orleanians: How ditching booze for burlesque awakened dancer Harper Hexx

By Matthew Hinton / September 18, 2019

Harper Hexx began as an exotic dancer on Bourbon Street at 19-years-old, but after ditching booze and getting sober, she says she’s been awakened.

PHOTOS: Lawrence Brooks, America’s oldest WWII veteran, celebrates turning 110

By Matthew Hinton / September 13, 2019

Brooks served in the Pacific Theater in New Guinea and the Philippines in the predominantly African-American 91st Engineer Battalion that helped make runways for planes.