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Matt Black Documents the Geography of Poverty in America

For six years, and over 100,000 Miles through 46 States, Matt Black crisscrossed the United States by car and bus looking at America while recording the lives of rural and working-class Americans living in poverty in the richest country in the world.
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Lindsay, California © 2021 Matt Black
At the age of 17, photographer Matt Black got a job working in the darkroom of a local newspaper in the Central Valley of California. It was a small newspaper, and had a simple black and white darkroom. But ...

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Robert E. Gerhardt

Robert Gerhardt is a New York based photographer and freelance writer. His photographs and writings have been published nationally and internationally including in The Hong Kong Free Press, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Diplomat.

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