American Geographies will survey photographer Matt Black's work chronicling the social and environmental landscapes of his native rural California and across the United States.
The event will be held in English
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American Geographies will survey photographer Matt Black's work chronicling the social and environmental landscapes of his native rural California and across the United States.
The event will be held in English
MATT BLACK
Matt Black is from California’s Central Valley, a rural, agricultural area 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 and Hudson in 2021, accompanied by a traveling exhibition that opened at the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. The book is now in its third printing, and a companion volume, ‘American Artifacts’, was released in 2024.
His work has appeared regularly in the US and international press, including TIME Magazine, The New Yorker, Le Monde and Internazionale. He has been honored three times by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Prize, received the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award, and has held fellowships from the Emerson Collective, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the National Geographic Society.
Other honors include the National Press Photographers Foundation, 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.