White has been named "one of the most influential people in photography" by American Photo magazine, and was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2019.

He initially focused on shooting portraits for young musicians, aspiring models[3] and actors, and made forty trips to South America over the course of four years on travel assignments.

Basing his experience of his South American work, he won an assignment at Rolling Stone to do a shoot for Yoko Ono.

[5] White has contributed to the covers of magazines such as Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, People, and Us[3][6] as well as movie posters for Hollywood's studios.

[2] He has photographed actors Harrison Ford, Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Paul McCartney, Nicolas Cage, Whoopi Goldberg, Yoko Ono, Elizabeth Taylor, Brad Pitt,[3] Will Smith,[7] Julia Roberts,[8][9] Gwyneth Paltrow, Julianne Moore, Ben Affleck and Tim Robbins, and music artists Eric Clapton, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Outkast, and Keith Richards.

[6][3][10] White directed the music video "Love Gets Me Every Time" (1997) as he photographed Shania Twain for the Come On Over album art.

[14] White, with his friend Walt Wilson purchased the entire town of Amboy, California in the year 2000, and used it for photoshoots and to host movie companies.

[20][21] As part of volunteering for Riverkeeper, non-profit environmental organization for the protection of the Hudson River and its tributaries, he photographed pollution sites from a helicopter piloted by Harrison Ford.

[27][28] White photographed 23 women including Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, Susan Sarandon, Kate Hudson, and Cindy Crawford.