Matt Black

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Matt Black is a photographer from California's Central Valley. His work has explored themes of migration, 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.

He was named Time's Instagram photographer of the year in 2014 and he is a contributor to the @everydayusa photographers' collective. He has produced or collaborated on short films and multimedia pieces for msnbc.com, Orion Magazine, and The New Yorker.

His work has been profiled by National Public Radio, National Geographic, The New York Times, Time and Slate, and has been honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation, the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, World Press Photo, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Pictures of the Year International, and the Center for Cultural Innovation, among others. He lives in Exeter, a small town in California's Central Valley.

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