Poverty, Migration, and Bad Ecology: A Photographer Shows the US from an Unusual Angle

The United States of America, of course, is a powerful state with a well-developed economy, science, achieving space success, and medicine, which can only be envied. But no matter how advanced the country, one hundred percent of the population cannot live in it at the same high level. There are always places forgotten by God where people for one reason or another cannot boast of special well-being. It is about such corners that the American photographer Matt Black tells in his pictures.

Interestingly, one of the states on which the documentary is most focused is the wonderful and coveted California. A state that shows the best results in terms of GDP from year to year. The state where places of worship such as Hollywood and Silicon Valley are located, as well as cities of truly breathtaking and indescribable beauty. Finally, the state, which is rightfully considered the breadbasket of North America, because most of the crops are grown here and most of the food for Americans is produced.

Black, for whom the California Valley is home, decided to show how people live in tiny towns and villages, distant from the glamorous Los Angeles and elegant San Francisco. He himself comes from such a city, so the theme is not too "Hollywood" life of some of his fellow citizens is very close to the photographer. Of course, Matt did not stop in California, he visited 46 states of America and everywhere shot the province, as close as possible to the ruthless reality.