Title

• The Migrant Project

Author

• Rick Nahmias

Publisher

• University of New Mexico Press

The Migrant Project

Contemporary California Farm Workers

Overview

From the publisher

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 more than 4,000 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 farmworker advocates, and oral histories from farmworkers 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.

See also the slideshow on Culinate featuring photographs from this book.