FotoFocus announced photographer Matt Black as the featured speaker in its 2026 Lecture and Visiting Artist Series. The free public talk took place March 26 at the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Fath Auditorium.

Black is known for his long-form photojournalism exploring poverty, migration and environmental destruction. His projects, including “Mixteca,” “The Central Valley” and “American Geography,” document communities and landscapes shaped by social and economic change across the American West and beyond. For the lecture, Black discussed the historical lineage of social documentary photography that informs his work, drawing connections to photographers like Dorothea Lange, Lewis Hine and Timothy O’Sullivan.

The Lecture and Visiting Artist Series is part of FotoFocus’s year-round programming based in Cincinnati. The organization, which produces the biennial FotoFocus photography festival, also opened its new photography center with the inaugural “Big Tent” exhibition in 2026.

Source: https://www.fotofocus.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/FotoFocus-2026-Lecture-Matt-Black-Press-Release.pdf