Join Magnum photographers Matt Black and Antoine d'Agata as they discuss the photographic act as a political gesture at the Capa Center on September 29 at 7pm.

Matt Black is from California’s Central Valley, an agricultural region in the heart of the state. His work explores the connection between migration, poverty, agriculture, and the environment in his native rural California and in southern Mexico. For his ongoing project, The Geography of Poverty, Matt Black traveled 48,000 miles across 44 States to photograph designated "areas of poverty" and highlight the growing gap between rich and the poor.

Marseilles-born Antoine d’Agata left France in 1983 and remained overseas for the next ten years. Finding himself in New York in 1990, he pursued an interest in photography by taking courses at the International Center of Photography, where his teachers included Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. For his first books of photographs, "De Mala Muerte" and "Male Noche", d’Agata traveled the world to document characters of the night’s further edges: sex workers, addicts, war-torn communities, and homeless people.

Both of Matt Black and Antoine d’Agata use the photographic object as a tool to engage with the world. With their intimate relationship to the medium, both are able to visualize the complexities of reality through innovative and contemporary approaches. Through their authentic interpretations of reality, audiences are able to experience a political world that is both familiar and completely outside of their own.

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