Matt Black comes from California’s Central Valley, a rural and agricultural region in the heart of the state. Between 2014 and 2020, he traveled over 100,000 miles across 46 states for his project American Geography, published by Thames & Hudson in 2021 and accompanied by a traveling exhibition inaugurated at Deichtorhallen Hamburg. Other works include The Dry Land, on the impact of drought on California’s farming communities, and The Monster in the Mountains, about the disappearance of 43 students in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. Both projects, accompanied by short films, were published in The New Yorker.
His work has regularly appeared in U.S. and international media, including TIME Magazine, The New Yorker, Le Monde, and Internazionale. He has received the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Prize three times, the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award, and fellowships from the Emerson Collective and the National Geographic Society.
Additional honors include recognition from the National Press Photographers Association, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the California Arts Council, and World Press Photo. He was nominated to join Magnum Photos in 2015 and became a full member in 2019.
Learn more about Matt Black:
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