Poverty in plenty in “The Migrant Project” - Rick Nahmias quit his job as a researcher for Arianna Huffington and spent six months following California’s farmworkers.

RICK NAHMIAS was at cooking school in an affluent ZIP Code of the Napa Valley, a mouth-watering abundance of fruit and vegetables arrayed for his instruction every day, when it occurred to him to wonder at the hidden source of this bounty. “It astounded me,” he says, “that nobody there talked about where all this food was coming from.”

A screenwriter, photographer and then researcher for political columnist Arianna Huffington, Nahmias had gone to Napa with the thought of maybe getting into the restaurant business. But his curiosity sent him in another direction altogether: on a mission to document through photographs the lives of contemporary farmworkers in California.

The result of his six-month immersion in the fields, “The Migrant Project,” is on exhibit at the Museum of Tolerance through April 25, one stop on a national tour. “*

*From: http://www.latimes.com
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