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Every day in the hot fields of California, hundreds of thousands of farm workers toil for long hours at low pay to provide fruit and vegetables to feed our nation. Most Americans never see the faces of these hard-working men and women, and know little or nothing about the harsh conditions they endure. The Migrant Project has done an extraordinary job documenting these workers lives. Rick Nahmias' powerful photographs and the beautiful essays of dedicated advocates tell an inspiring story of the farm workers historic struggle for the respect, the dignity, and the justice they so obviously deserve.
-U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Nahmias's images starkly capture both the humanity of the farm workers who literally feed our country, and the inhumanity of a system which has kept them and their predecessors prisoners to poverty for decades. This book is a testament to the flesh-and-blood cost of feeding America.
-Arianna Huffington, author, editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, and nationally syndicated columnist
Images of migrant farm workers of the 1930s are now iconic to many, but rarely seen are their contemporaries - one of Americas largest invisible and cast-off populations - California farm workers, a workforce numbering over a million, and one responsible for harvesting over fifty percent of the nations food. The Migrant Project presents an in-depth photo-documentary (with bilingual text) that goes beyond any one state's issues and proudly places the faces and stories of those currently working our fields front and center, providing a present day microcosm for numerous questions surrounding the human cost of feeding America.
The images depict everything from family life, children and pesticides, to the search for housing, work, health care, to their scraping together of community and culture. Shot in over 50 towns across the state, from Calexico to Sacramento, The Migrant Project premiered as an official affiliate exhibit of the California Council on the Humanities and has received a U.S. Congressional Citation of Merit. The exhibition addresses numerous themes including, Immigration, Labor/Race Relations, Human Rights/Social Justice, U.S. Agriculture History, The Latino American Experience, Tolerance and Marginalization and Documentary Photography/Photojournalism.
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Space requirements: 125-150 linear feet
Security: Moderate
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© 2011 Forma Projects 21, Venice, CA
