“The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers" is an in-depth photojournalistic portrait detailing the lives and struggles of today's California migrant farm workers. It was shot in over four dozen towns across the state, from Calexico to Sacramento by photographer, writer, and filmmaker, Rick Nahmias, during the 2002-3 harvest.

From spring 2002 thru winter 2003, Nahmias traveled up and down the state to over fifty rural communities, photographing their people and recording their stories. The resulting 40 image exhibit previewed in Los Angeles as an official affiliate exhibit of the California Council on the Humanities "Grapes of Wrath/California Stories" program and is now touring museums, universities, and cultural centers throughout North America as an art, humanities and education tool.

Though images of the farm workers of the 1930s and 40s are now iconic to many Americans, this mosaic of images and bilingual text aims to capture the rarely seen contemporary faces of this mostly invisible and cast-off population, as well as speak about more general issues surrounding the human cost of feeding America.

"The Migrant Project" depicts everything from family life, culture, children and pesticides, to the search for housing, work, health care, and the scraping together of community. By providing these and other human details it aims to foster a greater sense of empathy with today's farm workers as well as provide a humanistic lens through which to understand this, the poorest and most consistently exploited segment of our society."