The Geography of Poverty

Photography by Matt Black,  Essay by Paul Reyes
The Other Side of the Central Valley's Natural Wealth

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Issue: Summer 2015 / Volume 91/3
Published: July 1, 2015
Matt Black

Matt Black’s photo essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Le Monde, Mother Jones, and Vice. 

Paul Reyes

Paul Reyes is VQR’s Editor and is the author of Exiles in Eden: Life Among the Ruins of Florida’s Great Recession. He has published several articles in VQR, including “Opportunity Knocks,” his essay about the Miami organization Take Back the Land, which was a finalist for a Harry Chapin...

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