Last year, I did a photo shoot for the AP about strawberry workers. Some time later, I was contacted by a painter from the Central Coast. Claire O. Harkins wrote that she saw my article and photos in the Monterey County Herald and asked whether she could use one of the photos as inspiration for an oil painting. I agreed …
AP STORY: Latino Strawberry Growers
Early this week, I drove to the Watsonville-Salinas valley on California’s Central Coast – half of the strawberries grown in the state come from this area. And California grows 90 percent of the nation’s strawberries. It is clear to see why Watsonville-Salinas is ‘strawberry central.’ As soon as you get off the highway, you are completely surrounded by strawberry fields. …
AP PHOTOS: Greenfield indigenous art
This is a series of photos I shot for the Greenfield Divided City story. Every two weeks, indigenous migrant farmworkers from the Mexican Triqui community gather together to teach their children indigenous art and music. Organized by Triqui leader Mariano Alvarez and other community leaders _ most of whom work daily in the fields surrounding Greenfield _ the workshop is …