Farming Life
Photographer Robert Coppola described his goal in documenting farm conditions in this way: “Migrant farm workers face a variety of hardships: low wages, lack of affordable housing, health risks, inadequate health care, and workplace exploitation. This photograph is from a series that draws inspiration from the life of migrant farm workers at the time of John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. Although the daily life of the migrant farm worker has changed, the work still fails to provide the basic necessities of life and it is often a life lacking in human dignity.”
Photographer Robert Coppola described his goal in documenting farm conditions in this way: “Migrant farm workers face a variety of hardships: low wages, lack of affordable housing, health risks, inadequate health care, and workplace exploitation. This photograph is from a series that draws inspiration from the life of migrant farm workers at the time of John Steinbeck’s <em>Grapes of Wrath.</em> Although the daily life of the migrant farm worker has changed, the work still fails to provide the basic necessities of life and it is often a life lacking in human dignity.”