New Exhibit Coming to History Park:

In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte

Opening October 26, 2017 

A new exhibition chronicling the lives of contemporary 

migrant farm workers is on display in the Arbuckle Gallery at the Pacific Hotel from October 26, 2017 to June 3, 2018. The exhibit features photojournalist David Bacon's evocative photographs alongside moving oral narratives from migrant farm workers.

The exhibition, fully translated into both English and Spanish, gives viewers a reality check on the food they eat and the lives of the people who harvest it. Traveling with migrant workers as the fruit and harvest season moves from the Mexican border to Washington state,  In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte 

sheds light on some basic questions: How much do we know about the lives of the people who feed us? Where do they live? How does it feel to do some of the hardest repetitive labor imaginable? And what answers do farm workers themselves have to end their poverty and endless migration?

Photographer, journalist, and activist David Bacon has spent over three decades documenting the lives of migrant workers, building upon his previous work as a union organizer. The exhibition is based upon the book of the same name, recently published by University of California Press. As Kent Wong, Director of the UCLA Labor Center, writes, "Bacon captures the humanity of workers who work each day in demanding physical labor, in the hot sun, and for poverty wages. This is one of the few publications that captures the authentic stories of California farm workers, through their own voices and with the images of their living and working conditions." Bacon is also the author of The Children of NAFTA, Communities Without Borders, Illegal People, and The Right to Stay Home.

In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte is open Tuesday - Sunday, 11:00am - 4:30pm, from 

October 26, 2017 to June 3, 2018 in the Arbuckle Gallery in the Pacific Hotel at History Park.