The images in this book highlight the lives of the men and women
who struggle to exist while literally feeding this country.
Countless words and studies over decades bemoan the plight of those
who toil in the fields, but Rick Nahmias's pictures bring farm
workers to us in an unforgettable way, taking us beyond stoop labor
stills and into their intimate moments and inner lives. Having
traveled over four thousand miles to document California's migrant
workforce, Nahmias's soulful images and incisive text go beyond one
state's issues, illuminating the bigger story about the human cost
of feeding America.
"The Migrant Project" includes the images and text of the
traveling exhibition of the same name, along with numerous outtakes
and an in-depth preface by Nahmias. Accompanied by a Foreword from
United Farm Worker co-creator Dolores Huerta, essays by top farm
worker advocates, and oral histories from farm workers themselves,
this volume should find itself at home in the hands of everyone
from the student and teacher, to the activist, the photography
enthusiast, and the consumer.
"Every day in the hot fields of California, hundreds of
thousands of farmworkers 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's powerful photographs and the beautiful essays
of dedicated advocates tell an inspiring story of the farmworkers'
historic struggle for the respect, the dignity, and the justice
they so obviously deserve."--U.S.Senator Edward M. Kennedy,
Massachusetts
"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
Exhibition schedule for "The Migrant Project" photographs:
Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington D.C., February 21-April
14, 2008
Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, California, March 4-April 25,
2008
For more information on immigrant and migrant worker issues,
please access the following organizations:
Farmworker Justice
California Rural Legal Assistance
National Association of State Directors of Migrant Education
National Council for La Raza
International Relations Center Americas Program
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
Global Commission on International Migration
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
National Farmworker Ministry
National Rural Funders Collaborative
National Farm Worker Alliance
Southern Poverty Law Center
UMOS
Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice
American Friends Service Committee
AFL-CIO
Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform
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