Matt Black's work has been popping up all over the place lately. Deservedly so. This is some of the strongest documentary photography I've seen in a long time. I have used the word slay, as in this work slays me. I had a hard time selecting images to share here, as I basically like all of the pictures he's made. He just recently won the W. Eugene Smith Award.
Here's the bio from his website:
Matt Black is a
photographer from California’s Central Valley. His work has explored themes of
migration, farming, poverty and the environment in his native rural California
and in southern Mexico. Recent photo essays have been published in The New
Yorker, Mother Jones, and Vice Magazines.
He was named Time
Magazine's Instagram photographer of the year in 2014 and is a contributor to
the @everydayusa photographers’ collective. He has produced short films and
multimedia pieces for msnbc.com, Orion Magazine, and The New Yorker,
and has taught photography with the Foundry Photojournalism Workshops and the
Los Angeles Center of Photography. Anastasia Photo gallery in New York
represents his fine prints. He is a nominee to Magnum Photos.
His work has been profiled by National
Geographic, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Time and Slate,
and has been honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation, the Magnum
Foundation Emergency Fund, World Press Photo, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis
Reporting, Pictures of the Year International, the Alexia Foundation, and the
Center for Cultural Innovation, among others. He lives in Exeter, a small town
in California’s Central Valley.
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