Congratulations to Matt Black and Tonika Lewis Johnson on receiving MacArthur Fellowships
Courtesy of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Courtesy of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Congratulations to Matt Black and Tonika Lewis Johnson on receiving the MacArthur Fellowship, the prestigious award given to "extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential.”
Matt Black, a member of Magnum Photos, is a photographer chronicling people and landscapes in marginalized communities across the United States. In distinctive black and white images, Black compels viewers to grapple with the prevalence of poverty in the United States and its impacts on daily life for many Americans. In 2015, Magnum Foundation supported Black’s project The Geography of Poverty through the Emergency Fund, and partnered with The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine to bring the work into public space through The Value of Food: Sustaining a Green Planet.
Tonika Lewis Johnson is a photographer and social justice artist who has worked with Magnum Foundation in the organization’s early years. Her work aims at exposing the impacts of systematic disinvestment in urban communities through photography, multimedia storytelling, education, and renovation projects to articulate the vast disparities in conditions, infrastructure, and investment between Chicago’s neighborhoods.
Congrats to both!