Farmworker Photo Exhibition Opens at UC Davis
A different take on your agricultural news today… we’re talking about the place where history, art, controversy, and agriculture all meet — and right now, it’s on display at UC Davis.
The university just opened a traveling exhibition called In Camps, Under Trees and Evicted. It features nearly 90 photographs from journalist and labor photographer David Bacon, who spent 35 years documenting the lives of farmworkers in Northern California.
These black-and-white images highlight the experiences of people who, as Bacon says, are often “virtually invisible in the picture most people see of Northern California.” They show the strength and resilience of farm laborers while also reminding us of the movement that reshaped agricultural history.
The exhibition commemorates the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Delano grape strike, when Filipino farmworkers walked out over poor pay and conditions. Within days, Cesar Chavez and the National Farm Workers Association joined in, and a year later the groups united to form the United Farm Workers.
You can see the exhibition at the Peter J. Shields Library at UC Davis now through December 14.
