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Matt Black (born 1970, Santa Maria, California) is an American documentary photographer whose work has focused on contemporary rural life in California and Mexico. Black has received a World Press Photo Award,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 accessdate = 22 June 2015 )〕 the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights )〕 and the W. Eugene Smith Grant. He is a nominee member of Magnum Photos. ==Life and work== Black grew up in the town of Visalia, California, in the state's agricultural Central Valley. While attending high school, he worked as a photographer at the ''Tulare Advance-Register'', later the ''Visalia Times-Delta'', where he learned the black and white photojournalism style he has used throughout his career. He received a B.A. in Latin American History from San Francisco State University in 1995.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Syracuse University Magazine )〕 In the early 1990s, Black made several trips to Latin America, work that in 1993 gained first prize in the Daily Life category of the World Press Photo Award.〔 His 1996 article, "Homage to an Outlaw", published by ''West Magazine'', marked the beginning of his long form photojournalism focusing on rural life in the Central Valley.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=San Jose Mercury News West Magazine )〕 Other major projects in the Central Valley include ''The Black Okies'', for which he was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Columbia University )〕 and ''From Dust to Dust'', about indigenous Mexican migrants in California, for which he received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism, Domestic Photography category, in 2007.〔 In 1999, while working on a story about widespread unemployment in the Central Valley in the aftermath of a citrus freeze,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=San Jose Mercury News West Magazine )〕 Black met a family from Oaxaca, Mexico, which introduced him to the story of indigenous Mixtec migrants. The following year, he traveled to the Mixteca region of southern Mexico, beginning his project ''The People of Clouds''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=The New Yorker )〕 Again working in the extended photo-essay form, major stories from this project include ''The Face of the Mountain'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=The New York Times )〕 and ''After the Fall''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Orion Magazine )〕 In addition to still photography, Black has completed several short documentary films, including ''After the Fall'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Mountainfilm in Telluride )〕 and ''Harvest of Shadows''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=MSNBC )〕 In June 2015 he became a nominee member of Magnum Photos.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matt Black (photographer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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