Matt Black has documented the land and culture of the Mixteca region of Mexico over the last decade and over a dozen trips. His works is stark and it's what I would call real documentary photography.
I had the pleasure of meeting Matt and am pleased to feature him on the journal. Please take a few moments and view his work on the film " People of the Clouds."
Ball of fire, constant motion, full of life... just a few adjectives to describe this larger than life little man. He's got it in spades and I'm excited to see where he goes.
I do take a portrait every now and again.
Alex, Cloverport, KY 2012
I went to the final day of the Garry Winogrand exhibit at the SFMOMA today. I have to say it was impressive. I spent about 3 hours at the museum and really enjoyed the show.
What struck me as impressive is the amount of imagery he produced and how often he was out making images. The other thought that crossed my mind is that we'll never have a cross section of images from one photographer again.
The show show was split up into 3 parts; one about New York in the 60's, the "Boom or Bust" section and a section about his final years. It was interesting to see the images from the period of my youth and I wonder if we'll be able to see this moving forward. he had what appeared to be access and never seemed to worry about where it was that he was pointing his camera.
In several images there are people obviously not happy with their image being made but for the most part it seemed as if he was invisible to the subjects. His images make the "street images" from today seem mundane and without soul. I'd say for the most part that his images reflected the photographer as much as they do the times during which the images were made. All in all a really enjoyable show and one that I hope a lot of people got to see.
Santa Monica,, 2011
Pacific Ocean, February 2013
I received an unexpected roll of film back from the lab. I had forgotten that I had made some images with my XPAN using color film but got the film back today and there it was. I couldn't remember sending, much less exposing the frames. Old age I suppose.
But there was one frame that just stuck out. Those don't happen often for me and when they do it's almost like I know what I'm doing with a camera. This just encourages me to keep moving on with photography even when I think it can sometimes be a foolish endeavor.
So this image will get me through the next few months of self doubt and image making as I explore the new areas available to me now. We'll see what happens with the other rolls I received. I'm glad I opened this one first.
Newport Beach Pier, February 2013
