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The Geography of PovertyMatt Black

Associazione Culturale ONTHEMOVE

DATA SHEET OF THE EXHIBTION | The Geography of Poverty - Matt Black

The Geography of PovertyMatt Black

Produced byAssociazione culturale ONTHEMOVEin occasione del Festival Internazionaledi Fotografia Cortona On The Move 2017

Curated byArianna Rinaldo

Associazione culturale ONTHEMOVE | Località Vallone, 39/A/4 - Cortona, 52044 (AR)

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Antonio CarloniExecutive director

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THE GEOGRAPHY OF POVERTY

Between 2014 and 2017, photographer Matt Black has traveled over 50,000 miles across 46 US

states, photographing the country’s de signated “poverty areas” communities whose poverty

rates are in excess of 20%.

According to the Census Bureau’s measure of poverty - $ 11,490 annual income for one person

or $ 23,550 for a family of four - over 43 million people qualify as poor in the US. At the same

time, the share of income going to the top one percent of the population has more than

doubled since the 1970s. At the very top, the richest 0.1 percent’s share of the national wealth

has tripled.

From the deserts of the Southwest through the Black Belt in the South, to the post-industrial,

former factory towns running midwest and northeast, to Native reservations across the Great

Plains, “The Geography of Poverty” gives its focus to America’s most marginalized communities

and highlights the country’s growing gap between rich and poor.



MATT BLACK

Matt Black (1970, Santa Maria, U.S.) is from California’s Central Valley, an agricultural region

in the heart of the state where he lives, in Exeter, a small town. His work has explored the

connections between migration, poverty, agriculture, and the environment. Other recent

works, in addition to “The Geography of Poverty”, include “The Dry Land”, about the impact of

drought on California’s agricultural communities, and “The Monster in the Mountains”, about the

disappearance of 43 students in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. Both of these projects

were accompanied by short films and were published by The New Yorker.

He was nominated to Magnum Photos and received the W. Eugene Smith Award in 2015. In

2016, he received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. His work has also been honored by

the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the Center

for Cultural Innovation, and others.



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Photographer

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Linear development

Set up annotations

The Geography of Poverty

Matt Black

30 prints

1 blow up

Black and white

30 prints framed and mounted on dibond 3 mm

1 blow up

30 prints 84 x 84 cm

1 blow up 52 x 211 cm

86 x 86 cm (thickness 4 cm) in lime wood

29 mt minimum (spaces not included)

Text material must be printed at the expense of the

hosting organization. We provide introduction text,

biography and captions both in italian and english.



INVENTORY OF IMAGES

Allensworth, California. Fence post. Allensworth has a

population of 471 and 54% live below the poverty level.

© Matt Black/Magnum Photos

El Paso, Texas. El Paso has a population of 649,121 and

21.5% live below the poverty level.


Buffalo, New York. Shuttered train terminal. Buffalo

has a population of 261,310 and 30.7% live below the

poverty level.


Corcoran, California. Burning tires. Corcoran has a

population of 24,813 and 28% of its population lives

below the poverty level.


Fresno, California. Homeless camp. Fresno has a

population of 494,665 and 24.8% live below the poverty

level.


Tulare, California. Flea market. Tulare has a population

of 59,278 and 21.4% live below the poverty level.


Doña Ana County, New Mexico. Backyard. Doña Ana

County has a population of 209,233 and 27% live below

the poverty level.


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McAllen, Texas. Jumping the border fence. McAllen

has a population of 129,877 and 26.7% live below the

poverty level.


McAllen, Texas. A family from Honduras detained at

the border. McAllen has a population of 129,877 and



York, Pennsylvania. Rainstorm. York has a population of

43,718 and 37.1% live below the poverty level.


Syracuse, New York. Syracuse has a population of



Flint, Michigan. Searching for scrap metal. Flint has a


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Saginaw, Michigan. Saginaw has a population of 51,508

and 37.4% live below the poverty level.


Calumet, Michigan. Calumet has a population of 6,489



Flint, Michigan. After a bath. Flint has a population of



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Flint, Michigan. Snowfall. Flint has a population of



Flint, Michigan. House after snowfall. Flint has a


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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Downtown. Philadelphia

has a population of 1,526,006 and 26.7% live below the

poverty level.


Williamsburg, Virginia. Statues. Williamsburg has a


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Stockton, California. In 2015, local agencies counted

1,209 people in homeless shelters. Another 515 adults

and 26 children slept on the streets, double that of two

years earlier. Stockton is a town in San Joaquin County

with a population of 291,707 and 25.8% live below the

poverty level.


Alturas, California. Cattle auction. Alturas has a


level. “The logging moved out, the railroad moved out,

the telephone company moved out. If it weren’t for

BLM and the Forest Service, this little town wouldn’t

have no economy.”


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Wind River Reservation, Wyoming. Cattle drive. The

Wind River Reservation has a population of 40,237

and 22.6% live below the poverty level. The Eastern

Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes share the 2.2

million acre reservation in western Wyoming. The

unemployment rate among the Shoshone tribe is 86

percent. Arapaho unemployment stands at 84 percent.


Lorain, Ohio. Downtown. The main strips in downtown

Lorain are pocked with shuttered buildings and

crumbling infrastructure. “Everything has changed. It’s

not like it used to be.” Lorain has a population of 64,097



In downtown Canton, Ohio, the living march among the

ghosts of times past. The skeletons of what had been

are everywhere, from vacant warehouses to crumbling

storefronts. Canton is a city in Stark County with a

population of 73,007 and 32,4% live below the poverty

level.


Piedmont, Missouri. Piedmont has a population of 1,977



La Junta, Colorado. La Junta has a population of 7,077



Lost Hills, California. Memorial. Lost Hills has a


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Eagle Butte, South Dakota. Eagle Butte has a


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Ontario, Wisconsin. Ontario has a population of 554 and



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Modesto, California. Corner store. Modesto has a


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