Immigration Reality: Modern Agonies in Ancient Mexican Villages - Matt Black Traveled to a Distressed Region Whose Residents Are Trekking to California

Matt Black Traveled to a Distressed Region Whose Residents Are Trekking to California - NYTimes.com:
"Journalists from the United States often stop at the Mexican border when they’re covering immigration issues, almost as if the crisis starts and stops on this side. ...

Matt Black, 40, who has spent years documenting the migrant population in the Central Valley (“Oaxacan Exodus“), could very well see the effects in California. But for “People of the Clouds” he wanted to understand what has happening on the other side of the border. ...

His grainy, black-and-white pictures show a culture that has not been greatly touched by the modern world and communities that have lost most of their population, like the village of San Miguel Cuevas. “In the span of a generation, this whole culture is vanishing,” Mr. Black said. “You can’t find anyone between the ages of 16 and 45.”"