The Kingdom of Dust
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| Sheep at dawn. Firebaugh, California. |
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| Watering a tomato field. Huron, California. |
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| Dust storm ripps off a roof. Avenal, California. |
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| A Farmworker clears tumbleweeds. Lamont, California. |
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| Jobless man bathes in a ditch. Mendota, California. |
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| Deserted storefronts. McFarland, California. |
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| Kids playing in the road. Teviston, California. |
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| Jobless man at his shantytown home. Fresno, California. |
The People of Clouds
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| Late afternoon fog drifts through desert streets in this highland village. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. |
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| Harvesting a drought-stunted field. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. |
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| A woman cooks in the kitchen of her home. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. |
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| A woman rests outside a store. El Ciruelo, Mexico. |
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| Villagers celebrate their town's Saint's Day. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. |
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| Clearing a field after burning. El Ciruelo, Mexico. |
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| A boy inside his family's tin house. Santiago Mitlatongo, Mexico. |
The Dispossession
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| Woman at her shantytown home. Fresno, California. |
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| Former construction worker at a homeless camp. Fresno, California. |
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| A marcher protests farm water cuts. Mendota, California. |
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| Counting change in a homeless camp. Fresno, California. |
Oaxacan Exodus
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| The daughter of indigenous Triqui immigrants at home. Kerman, California. |
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| Young immigrant couple on a labor bus. Fresno, California. |
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| A girl cares for her sister while her parents work the fields. Kerman, California. |
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| A Triqui girl stands in the bathroom of a migrant camp. Hillsboro, Oregon. |
The Black Oakies
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| Former cotton migrant at home. Teviston, California. |
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| Mother and son at home. Tviston, California. |
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| 96 year old in his bedroom. Teviston, California. |
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| Sisters alongside the road near their home. Allensworth, California. |
Saroyan's Ghosts
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| Old town entrance. Fresno, California. |
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| Abandoned restaurant. Fresno, California. |
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| Homeless man near railyard. Fresno, California. |
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| Abandoned artist's studio. Fresno, California. |
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| Abandoned chinese cemetery. Fresno, California. |
Bitter Harvest
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| Hmong worker tends vegetable farm. Fresno, California. |
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| Hmong New Year celebration. Fresno, California. |
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| Clan elders propose a toast. Fresno, California. |
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| Hmong worker and her son. Fresno, California. |
Joaquin's Town
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| Empty field after a flood. Three Rocks, California. |
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| Squatter at an abandoned house. Three Rocks, California. |
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| Riders along the highway. Mendota, California. |
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| Man living at abandoned gas station. Three Rocks, California. |
Cloud Stories
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| Houses drift downhill in a slow-motion landslide. Santiago Mitlatongo, Mexico. |
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| A rainstorm dampens a family's shelter. Santiago Mitlatongo, Mexico. |
Face of the Mountain
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| An old man returns home from his remote corn field. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. |
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| A man left alone by his migrant children. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. |
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| A woman returns home after working her field. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. |
The Third Root
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| Digging for a drink in a dry riverbed. El Ciruelo, Mexico. |
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| A funeral procession enters the cemetery. El Ciruelo, Mexico. |
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| A mentally ill man tied to a house. El Ciruelo, Mexico. |
Matt Black grew up in a small town in California Central Valley, a vast agricultural area in the heart of the state. He started photography at a young age and worked as a newspaper photographer while in his teens. He attended San Francisco State University , where he studied Latin American and US Labor history.
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