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Hello everyone.
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Uh I'm about to show you um photographs of the
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photographer called Matte Black.
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Okay. He was making a photography about poverty and California's
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Central Valley.
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It's about Global goal.
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No one.
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No poverty is associated with that.
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So, for more than 20 years, photographer Matt Black has
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been exploring the issue of poverty, immigration and farming in
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California's Central Valley, painting a picture of extreme economic hardship
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in one of the country's richest states.
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So on.
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The picture is here, we can see it's a downtown
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pass. Well, It has a population of 2000 to 27
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people and 24.4 live below power to level.
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Mhm. Um in 2008, possible post 20% of its population
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in one day When immigration agents arrested and deported 389,
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mostly Guatemalan workers from the town's meatpacking plant.
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Mhm. Here you can see um a picture.
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It's a very sad diabetic farm worker lost his feet
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to frostbite after picking blueberries in the snow.
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Um So let me if it's not just patent, it's
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also isolating the stigma of poverty is one of the
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devices by which people's voices are suppressed and the reality
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is obscured.
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Um So the photographers, the black man, he is particularly
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interested in how power to diminishes in one's self esteem,
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thereby maintaining this dynamic between the powerful and powerless.
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And he started black and white photographs can seem almost
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like fun art.
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But but he said that he doesn't think of them
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in terms of beauty at all.
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So does the photographs contain a certain truth?
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A certain your pictures depiction of life.
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Photography is a language I'm using to address abstract concepts
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like powerlessness.
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It's a lot more complicated than just aesthetics I'm paraphrasing.
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Uh huh.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for your attention.