Matt Black grew up in a small town in California's Central Valley, a rural agricultural area in the heart of the state. He graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in Latin American and US Labor History.
Matt's work has chronicled the decline of traditional farming life and the rise of its modern replacement in rural California and southern Mexico. Exploring the changing human relationship to land, food, farming, and community lies at the core of Matt's twin documentary projects The People of Clouds and The Kingdom of Dust.
His work has been honored by the World Press Photo Foundation, the Alexia Foundation for World Peace, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation, Pictures of the Year International, and others.
Actualité Le magazine Private entraîne ses lecteurs dans des paysages intimes
Pour le numéro 54 du magazine Private, 14 photographes ont choisi comme thème la représentation des paysages intérieurs de l'être humain. Le titre, Lost (*perdu), sonne comme une chanson mélancolique dont les sentiments désordonnés pourraient être le thème.
C'est par une écriture photographique d'abord conceptuelle que s'ouvrent les pages du trimestriel. Avec la série Birds, Roger Ballen transporte son art dans une vielle maison de Johannesburg. Dans la présentation de sa série, le photographe américain juge que son travail est à placer entre l'Art Brut et le surréalisme : avec ses clichés en noir et blanc, il semble chercher à approcher la psychol...Livre Le 54 ème numéro de la revue Private est complètement perdu
Les photographes publiés dans le nouveau numéro de PRIVATE se servent d’une écriture photographique conceptuelle, surréaliste ou anthropologique afin de mieux raconter les paysages intérieurs de l’être humain.
Les photographes : Adam Pańczuk, Angela Bacon-Kidwell, Benjamin Goss, Carolyn Drake, Dorothy-Shoes, Hans Jacob Haarseth, Lori Vrba, Lyle Owerko, Matt Black, Mi Zhou, Roger Ballen, Ross McDonnell, Sarolta Bán, Stephen Dupont.
En savoir plus : www.privatephotoreview.com....Exposition Exhibition : « The Geography of Poverty » by Matt Black According to the Census Bureau’s measure of poverty—$11,490 annual income for one person or $23,550 for a fam- ily of four—over 45 million people fall below the poverty line in the U.S., the largest number on record for the country.
Originating on Black’s Instagram feed (@mattblack_blackmatt), The Geography of Poverty began in his home region of California’s Central Valley. In the heart of the nation’s richest state, conditions rival that of any third world nation, with residents suffering some of the country's highest unemployment and hunger rates. Combining images, geoloca- tion, and poverty data, the project sought to put these marginalized communities on the map and chart this un- seen scope of poverty in rural America. Since the first post in December 2013, The Geography of...Exposition Matt Black's From Clouds to Dust at Anastasia Photo Anastasia Photo is proud to present American photographer Matt Black’s first solo exhibition in New York City. His twin documentary projects The Kingdom of Dust and The People of Clouds explore the changing human relationship to food, farming and the environment. In 1995, Black returned to his native region, California’s Central Valley, to embark on The Kingdom of Dust, a multi-year chronicle exploring the underside of contemporary rural life in the shadow of some of America's richest farms. While working on this project, Black noticed a shift in the population of migrants coming to work the fields, and in 2000 began The People of Clouds, an extended photographic inquiry into the collapse of indigenous farming communities in the Mixteca region of southern Mexico. Through Black’s masterful eye and in...Modifier l'image