Geography of Poverty Newsprint (signed)
After years of photographing in his native rural Central Valley of California, photographer Matt Black wondered, “Just how many other places like mine are there in America?” While the Valley grows nearly half of the nation’s food, close to one-third of its population live in poverty. In 2014, Black began photographing the Valley’s poorest communities, and the following year, he expanded the project to encompass the entire United States. Traveling across 46 states and Puerto Rico, Black visited thousands of high-poverty areas that, while woven through the fabric of the country, are excluded from “the land of opportunity.” American Geography is the visual record of his six-year, 100,000-mile journey chronicling the conditions and experience of those cut off from the American Dream.
ITEM Description:
Newsprint publication covering Matt Black's first trip in 2015 crossing the United States. At 72 pages, with a self-cover and introduction by Nickel and Dimed author Barbara Ehrenreich, the publication contains many otherwise unseen images, printed in a newsprint format.
• Newsprint
• 72 pages
• 10” x 14”
• Published in an edition of 6000 in 2015
• Signed on cover
