THE MIGRANT PROJECT:

THE MEXICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE
invites you to the presentation of

THE MIGRANT PROJECT: Contemporary California Farm Workers
Photographs and text by Rick Nahmias
and
THE CELEBRATION OF CÉSAR CHÁVEZ DAY
Monday, March 31st, 2008

5:00PM
Roundtable discussion with:
Demetrios G Papademetriou, President, Migration Policy Institute
Bruce Goldstein, Executive Director, Farmworker Justice
Irasema Garza, Member of the Board, Farmworker Justice
Rick Nahmias, Photographer, The Migrant Project

6:00PM
Presentation of the exhibit by the photographer
Reception and book signing to follow
RSVP (202) 728-1675 or icmdc@instituteofmexicodc.org
For more information please visit: www.instituteofmexicodc.org

THE MIGRANT PROJECT addresses the phenomenon of Mexican migrant workers in California through a series of photographs by Rick Nahmias. This exhibit, which is now the subject of a new book just published by University of New Mexico Press, offers a rare contemporary look into the lives of one of America's largest invisible and disenfranchised populations. The pictures were taken in fifty different towns across California; they address the day-to-day life of migrant workers and their families, giving a human face to this otherwise forgotten population. The Migrant Project, an indepth photo-documentary (with bilingual text), proudly places the faces and stories of those currently working our fields front and center, providing a present day microcosm for numerous issues surrounding the human cost of feeding America.

Instituto Cultural de México
Washington D.C.
2829 16th st, NW
Washington D.C. 20009 USA
(202) 728 1647