Matt Black

Matt Black is an American documentary photographer known for his stark, high-contrast black-and-white images that chronicle poverty and rural hardship across the United States and Latin America. His work, often described as a modern visual atlas of American poverty, gained widespread recognition through his long-term project 'The Geography of Poverty,' which mapped communities living below the poverty line. Black's unflinching images have been published in major outlets including National Geographic and Time, and his work stands as a powerful social document of inequality in contemporary America.