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: Feeling French? Bastille Day in Faubourg St. John

By Matthew Hinton / July 29, 2019

Saturday, the Faubourg St. John celebrated Bastille Day in the neighborhood of French Creole aristocracy!

Gallery: Big Freedia gets bouncing with Ben & Jerry’s

By Matthew Hinton / July 8, 2019

YOU ALREADY KNOW!

GEAUX TEAM USA! NOLA celebrates the Women’s World Cup Champions

By Matthew Hinton / July 8, 2019

One of the best places in the city to watch soccer matches and celebrate is at Finn McCool’s Irish Pub in the Mid-City neighborhood.

Gallery: NOLA celebrates the life of Dave Bartholomew with second line

By Matthew Hinton / June 25, 2019

Mourners take part in a second line celebrating the life of Dave Bartholomew (December 24, 1918 – June 23, 2019) the architect of the New Orleans Sound as they parade from Kermit Ruffins’ Ernie K. Doe Mother-in-Law Lounge in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans.

Gallery: NOLA, Pelicans welcome Zion Williamson to Crescent City

By Matthew Hinton / June 24, 2019

Power Forward Zion Williamson was introduced Friday by Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson, general manager David Griffin, head coach Alvin Gentry and the city of New Orleans on the first day of summer after being selected the first overall pick of the NBA Draft.

Gallery: New Orleans sends of Dr. John with massive second line, jazz funeral

By Matthew Hinton / June 24, 2019

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dr. John was a worldwide ambassador for New Orleans music blending jazz, funk, blues, pop, boogie woogie, and rock and roll. This is how we send him off.

Gallery: NOLA Caribbean Fest covers city with ‘colourful’ parade

By Matthew Hinton / June 24, 2019

Participants in the NOLA Caribbean Festival take part in the Colour Me Krazy Carnival Parade down Canal Street in New Orleans on Saturday. The festival celebrated cuisine, music, dance and culture and its connection to the Crescent City. 

GALLERY: It’s official — Zion is coming to New Orleans!

By Matthew Hinton / June 21, 2019

Hundreds of people flooded Fulton Street Thursday to celebrate NBA draft day and the official announcement, and as expected, the city went crazy.

PHOTOS: New Orleans’ final farewell to Leah Chase was fit for a queen

By Matthew Hinton / June 11, 2019

Hundreds of New Orleanians came out Monday to pay their final respects to the Queen of Creole Cuisine, Leah Chase.

PHOTOS: Hundreds take to the streets for Dr. John’s Treme second line tribute

By Matthew Hinton / June 10, 2019

Dr. John was a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame musician blending blues, jazz, funk, pop, boogie woogie and rock and roll.