Jose Martinez, 38, a homeless farm worker in Huron, California, lives in a hole beneath
the concrete loading dock in the railroad yards. Between harvest jobs he supplements his
income by using the abandoned baby carriage (left) and picking sack right) to collect beer
bottles and cans for sale in one of the towns' two recycling centers.
I am a bilingual, academically-trained historian/photojournalist (Ph. D. Wisconsin), author of a multi-volume scholarly history of California farmworkers. I founded my own business, Streetshots agricultural photography. For 30 years I worked as an agricultural photographer/journalist, defined broadly, in order to remain submerged in the industry that is the setting for my field of expertise.
Awards Maine Media Award for Photojournalism
Howard Chapnick Award for Photojournalism
Mark Lynton History Award
Best Agricultural Reporting In California
Guggenheim Fellowship
