Fence post. Allensworth, CA. 2014. Images courtesy the Anastasia Photo Gallery
Is it possible that geotagging has a greater purpose than proving to your followers that you went to the MOMA this past weekend? Time Magazine’s 2014 Instagram Photographer of the Year, Matt Black wields the power of the geotag to chart poverty-stricken communities scattered across the US in his second show at the Anastasia Photo Gallery, The Geography of Poverty.The photo series began on Black’s Instagram in areas around his home in California’s Central Valley, where living conditions rival those in developing nations. This past June, Black set off on a three-month journey to the four corners the US, snapping pictures of over 70 towns and communities that all share one thing in common: 20% of their residents fall below the poverty line. “From the staggering hunger and food insecurity in the South west to the ‘Cancer Valley’ of Louisiana,” according to the show’s press release, “the project sought to put these marginalized communities on the map and chart this unseen scope of poverty in rural America.”
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