Tag: Matt Black
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TIME Exclusive: Magnum Emergency Fund Announces 2015 Grantees | TIME
Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund 2015 Grants Announced The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund today announces, exclusively through TIME LightBox, the winners of its 2015 grants via Time: http://time.com/3672263/time-exclusive-magnum-emergency-fund-announces-2015-grantees/ This year’s selection of awardees are Massimo Berruti, Matt Black, Peter DiCampo, Emine Gozde Sevim, Curran Hatleberg, Guy Martin, Pete Muller, Elena Perlino, Nii Obodai Provencal, Asim Rafiqui…
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Watch Almonds Suck California Dry | Mother Jones
Watch almonds suck California dry Photographer Matt Black highlights the stories behind California’s nut boom—in the midst of an epic drought. via Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/12/photos-matt-black-california-drought-almonds Photographer Matt Black highlights the stories behind California’s nut boom—in the midst of an epic drought.
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PDN Video Pick: Ed Kashi and Matt Black for The New Yorker
PDN Video Pick: Ed Kashi and Matt Black for The New Yorker | PDNPulse For PDN’s January 2015 print edition, we spoke with photographer Matt Black about the photo essay he made for The New Yorker about the drought in California’s Central Valley. Black, who lives in Exeter, California, has been documenting the valley—which pr via…
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Matt Black Is TIME’s Pick for Instagram Photographer of the Year 2014 | TIME
Matt Black Is TIME’s Pick for Instagram Photographer of the Year 2014 The Californian photographer has spent the last year putting poverty on the map using Instagram via Time: http://time.com/3615902/matt-black-instagram-photographer-of-2014/ The Californian photographer has spent the last year putting poverty on the map using Instagram
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reFramed: In conversation with Matt Black – Framework – Photos and Video – Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times
In conversation with Matt Black A: To me, the quality of your work is totally dependent on how connected you are to what you photograph. That doesn’t mean you have to be from a place to photograph it, of course, it’s just that you need to feel deeply about what you are doing. In my…
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New York: Matt Black From Cloud to Dust – The Eye of Photography
New York: Matt Black From Cloud to Dust history keeps repeating its schemes of social consequences. The Cloud People are the latest wave of working immigration, one that can’t go back to Mexico to harvest their own fields after the picking season in California because crossing the border now costs 4,000 $; one that make…
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California: Paradise Burning – The New Yorker
California: Paradise Burning A video captures the historically severe drought in the state’s normally fertile Central Valley. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/california-paradise-burning Photographers Matt Black and Ed Kashi recently spent time with the farmers and shepherds of the Central Valley, documenting their ongoing struggles
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Spellbinding Photos of California’s Central Valley Reveal the Dark Side of America’s Agricultural Industry – Feature Shoot
Spellbinding Photos of California’s Central Valley Reveal the Dark Side of America’s Agricultural Industry – Feature Shoot For Kingdom of Dust, photographer Matt Black documents daily life California’s Central Valley, where he has lived most of his life. Encompassing an enormous expanse greater that that of ten US states combined, this farmland produces $20 billion…
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The Geography of Poverty with Matt Black
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/04/25/lightbox-follow-friday-matt-black/#1 This week, TIME speaks with Matt Black (@mattblack_blackmatt), who charts the physical terrain of economic inequality in his Geography of Poverty project. He says Instagram has allowed him to explore the connection between cartography and photography as he builds a map…
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“I felt like the last thing the world needed was another photographer chasing headlines”
Link: “I felt like the last thing the world needed was another photographer chasing headlines” | Columbia Visuals You don’t have to travel far to find a great story –photographer Matt Black is proof. For the past decade, Black has focused his work in the California’s Central Valley, where he was born and raised. via…
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NPPA Announces Seven 2013 Short Grant Winners
NPPA Announces Seven 2013 Short Grant Winners Seven talented photojournalists will be receiving $3,000 each to work on photography projects as winners of the 2013 NPPA Short Grants Competition. The winners are Matt Black, Diane Weiss, April Saul, Cengiz Yar Jr., John Locher, William Plowman, and Loga via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/nppa-announces-seven-2013-short-grant-winners Seven talented photojournalists will be…
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Matt Black’s Series on Mixtec migrant workers, ‘The People of Clouds’
The People of Clouds via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/09/slide-show-matt-blacks-series-the-people-of-clouds.html#slide_ss_0=1 Matt Black’s “The People of Clouds” is a long-term examination of the lives of Mixtec migrant workers, a community that he first encountered near his home, in California’s Central Valley, in the late nineteen-nineties
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Matt Black’s “After the Fall”
Weighed Down by History, a Town Slides in Mexico The photographer Matt Black shot a remote town in southern Mexico that’s sliding down a mountain — a heart-wrenching story that illustrates the consequences of colonialism and modernity. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/a-dust-bowl-for-columbus-day/ The photographer Matt Black has been seeking stories of the indigenous tribes of southern…
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Modern Agonies in Ancient Mexican Villages
Modern Agonies in Ancient Mexican Villages To find out more about the immigration crisis in California, Matt Black traveled — arduously — through a remote region south of Mexico City. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/modern-agonies-in-ancient-mexican-villages/ Matt Black, 40, who has spent years documenting the migrant population in the Central Valley (“Oaxacan Exodus“), could very well see…
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Photographer #291: Matt Black
Photographer #291: Matt Black Matt Black, 1970, USA, is a socially engaged documentary photographer. He grew up in a small town in California’s Central Valley, an agricul… Link: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/05/photographer-291-matt-black.html Matt Black, 1970, USA, is a socially engaged documentary photographer. He grew up in a small town in California’s Central Valley, an agricultural area that is…
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Matt Black: A Commitment to Truth
PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK says: I think that the collective understanding of this country is very superficial, and big parts of it are just left out, deemed unimportant. It’s not just about being unfair; it’s something that makes for the kind of places where things are allowed to fester. It’s a whole other world, an alternate America.…