Matt Black

 

Matt Black's photography has been noted for its visual intensity, emotional engagement and social conscience. He has made a particular focus of documenting life in isolated and overlooked communities in rural California. His work in the Central Valley -- the so-called "Other California," a 400-mile stretch of farmland and small towns that is one of the most agriculturally rich, socially complex, and economically impoverished regions in America -- has been published and exhibited widely.

His work has been honored by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the California Arts Council, and the World Press Photo Foundation, among others. 

He lives in Lemon Cove, a small town in central California, with his wife, poet Melissa Martell Black. He can be reached at mail@mattblack.com.