American Black & White brings together new work from Matt Black’s series ‘The Geography of Poverty’, shown alongside Elliott Erwitt’s recently rediscovered work shot in Pittsburgh in 1950. Collectively, the distinctive works in this exhibition present a portrait of urban and rural America, shot half a century apart, but united by the medium of black & white photography. Examining life in the forgotten corners of America during the first months of the Trump presidency, this latest instalment from photographer Matt Black’s ‘The Geography of Poverty’ project finds region after region of the US marked by the competing conditions of poverty, violence, and prejudice as well as hope, honour, and pragmatism. For this ongoing project, Black has travelled 48,0000 miles across 44 US states, photographing communities whose poverty rates are I excess of 20%, and highlighting the country’s growing gap between
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