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Juxtapoz Magazine – Un-american Dream: Watch a New Documentary on Photographer Matt Black
Juxtapoz Magazine – Un-american Dream: Watch a New Documentary on Photographer Matt BlackBetween 2014 and 2020, photographer Matt Black traveled 100,000 miles across 46 American states to look behind the veil that keeps America’s poor in t…Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/un-american-dream-watch-a-new-documentary-on-photographer-matt-black/Between 2014 and 2020, photographer Matt Black traveled 100,000 miles across 46 American states to look behind the […]
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Matt Black Documents the Geography of Poverty in America | Blind
Matt Black Documents the Geography of Poverty in AmericaFor six years, and over 100,000 Miles through 46 States, Matt Black crisscrossed the United States by car and bus looking at America while recording the lives of rural and working-class Americans living in poverty in the richest country in the world.Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/matt-black-documents-the-geography-of-poverty-in-america-enFor six years, and over […]
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Matt Black’s American Geography: A Tale of Two Countries | Magnum Photos
Matt Black’s American Geography: A Tale of Two Countries | Magnum Photos Magnum Photosvia Magnum Photos: https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/society-arts-culture/matt-black-american-geography-tale-two-countries/A body of work made over six years — and a new photography course — shows how a commitment to social causes in photography can effect change
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15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work – Aperture
15 Photographers on How Imagination Shapes Their Work From the Magnum Square Print Sale in Partnership with Aperture, Dawoud Bey, Nan Goldin, KangHee Kim and more reflect on the photograph’s potential to influence social and artistic images.
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13 Photographers on Turning Points in Their Work – Aperture Foundation NY
13 Photographers on Turning Points in Their Work Turning points in the lives and works of photographers often span the extremes—from global and national events to the most personal moments. Photographers such as Alec Soth and Zun Lee are able to not only bear witness to events that shape our collective history, but also to […]
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Magnum Photos Blog
[contentcards url=”https://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_4&VBID=2K1HZOQ0TK4782&IID=2K1HRG9VS5OY”] Geography of Poverty by Matt Black – Magnum Photos Blog Matt Black’s ongoing project The Geography of Poverty, looks at designated “poverty areas” — with poverty rates of above 20 per cent as defined by the US census—and examines the conditions of powerlessness, prejudice, and pragmatism among America’s poor. Having travelled 100,000 miles […]
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Depicting Poverty: Matt Black Pushes Documentary Photography to its Fullest Range – Reading The Pictures
[contentcards url=”https://www.readingthepictures.org/2018/02/poverty-documentary-photography/”] Depicting Poverty: Matt Black Pushes Documentary Photography to its Fullest Range – Reading The Pictures We know what poverty looks like: unpainted boards, empty windows and door frames, broken roofing. Or it could be sagging fences and telephone poles, or cracked pavement and graffiti-stained concrete walls. Or faded billboards and backlot signage with […]
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Depicting Poverty: Matt Black Pushes Documentary Photography to its Fullest Range – Reading The Pictures
[contentcards url=”https://www.readingthepictures.org/2018/02/poverty-documentary-photography/”] Depicting Poverty: Matt Black Pushes Documentary Photography to its Fullest Range – Reading The Pictures Enter Matt Black, who has been doing really good work to document poverty in the US today. Note that I did not say “compelling” work or “powerful” work; frankly, I am sadly skeptical about the persuasive capacity of […]
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A Photographic Chronicle of America’s Working Poor | History | Smithsonian
A Photographic Chronicle of America’s Working Poor Smithsonian (Matt Black) journeyed from Maine to California to update a landmark study of American life
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Magnum Gets an Injection of New Talent From Six Photographers | American Photo
Magnum Gets an Injection of New Talent From Six Photographers This year the organization is considering a record number of new Magnum associates to potentially join their ranks: Matt Black, Carolyn Drake, Sohrab Hura, Lorenzo Meloni, Max Pinckers and Newsha Travakolian. To celebrate the history-making occasion Milk Gallery is currently hosting, Magnum Photos: New Blood, […]
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The Fall of Flint — The Development Set — Medium
Matt Black: The Fall of Flint Photographer Matt Black has profiled over 100 cities across 39 states for his project The Geography of Poverty. He recently went to Flint, Michigan, for The Development Set
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The 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant Recipients Matt Black, Marcus Bleasdale, Mary F. Calvert – The Eye of Photography
The 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant Recipients Matt Black, Marcus Bleasdale, Mary F. Calvert
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W. Eugene Smith Grants Honor Humanistic Photography – The New York Times
W. Eugene Smith Grants Honor Humanistic Photography Matt Black received this year’s W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for “The Geography of Poverty,” a project he started in California’s Central Valley where, after giving up his job as a newspaper photographer in the mid-1990s, he spent two decades documenting farming, migration and poverty.
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Matt Black Wins the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography | TIME
Matt Black Wins the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography Mary F. Calvert and Marcus Bleasdale share the Smith Fund Fellowship
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Matt Black Awarded 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant | American Photo
Matt Black Awarded 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant Photographer Matt Black has been awarded the 2015 W. Eugene Smith grant for his long-term documentary project The Geography of Poverty. Black started the project nearly two decades ago in California’s Central Valley, where he grew up, and in 2014 set out on a cross-country trek to […]
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Geography of Poverty | msnbc
Matt Black: Geography of Poverty
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2015 Magnum Nominees : The Future of Photojournalism – The Eye of Photography
2015 Magnum Nominees : The Future of Photojournalism From film-inspired Max Pinckers to war reporter Lorenzo Meloni, from Newsha Tavakolian’s insider’s view to the conceptual work of Richard Moose, from the lyrical Carolyn Drake to the classic approach of Matt Black, the six Magnum nominees for 2015 cover the full range of current documentary trends
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Magnum Photos Blog
Magnum 2015 Annual General Meeting Michael Christopher Brown has been made an Associate Member Carolyn Drake has been made a Magnum Nominee Matt Black has been made a Magnum Nominee Newsha Tavakolian has been made a Magnum Nominee Max Pinckers has been made a Magnum Nominee Richard Mosse has been made a Magnum Nominee Lorenzo […]
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Guerrero and the Disappeared – The New Yorker
Guerrero and the Disappeared For years, the photographer Matt Black has been documenting life in impoverished indigenous communities of southern Mexico, for an ongoing project called “The People of Clouds.”