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Matt Black's American Geography: Six Years Documenting Poverty

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Matt Black's American Geography: Six Years Documenting Poverty
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Magnum photographer Matt Black documented communities across 46 US states with concentrated poverty rates over six years and 100,000 miles in his project American Geography. Fstoppers profiles the work and the methodology behind it.

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